El Observatorio ESO Capta una Serpiente Cósmica.
“El instrumento VISIR, del Very Large Telescope de ESO, ha captado esta impresionante imagen de un sistema estelar binario masivo recién descubierto.”
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A Pulsar’s Hand.
“As far as pulsars go, PSR B1509-58 appears young. Light from the supernova explosion that gave birth to it would have first reached Earth some 1,700 years ago. The magnetized, 20 kilometer-diameter neutron star spins 7 times per second…”
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A Solar Filament Erupts.
“Toward the middle of 2012, a long standing solar filament suddenly erupted into space producing an energetic Coronal Mass Ejection (CME)…”
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Gravitational waves eject black hole from galaxy.
The following images and text illustrate how two supermassive black holes merged to form a single black hole which was then ejected from its parent galaxy…
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Seven Worlds for TRAPPIST-1
“Seven worlds orbit the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, a mere 40 light-years away…”
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Wolf-Rayet Star 124: Picture of the Day.
“Some stars explode in slow motion. Rare, massive Wolf-Rayet stars are so tumultuous and hot that they are slowly disintegrating right before our telescopes…”