Press enter or click to view image in full sizeBehind the dome of a series of European Southern Observatory telescopes, the Milky Way towers in the southern skies, flanked by the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, at right. Although there...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThis image of a region within Mars’s Jezero Crater, known as Cheyava Falls, was taken with NASA’s Perseverance Rover’s Mastcam-Z camera. The drillhole, at left, shows where a sample was collected...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeDark, dusty molecular clouds, like Barnard 59, part of the Pipe Nebula, appear prominent as they block out the light from background objects: stars, heated gas, and light-reflecting material. These dark...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThe ultramassive, merging dynamical galaxy cluster Abell 370, with gravitational mass (mostly dark matter) inferred in blue. Many elliptical galaxies are found inside massive clusters like this, as the result of...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeWhen an exoplanet passes in front of its parent star, a portion of that starlight will filter through the exoplanet’s atmosphere, allowing us to break up that light into its constituent...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeOne of the most popular efforts towards a Theory of Everything is string theory, where the Lie Group E8 x E8 is shown here: one realization of 10-dimensional superstring theory. The...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThis animation shows the Hubble image (left) and JWST image (right) of the same region of the Lobster Nebula, NGC 6357, with the focus of the image being the stars of...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThis composite image shows a brown dwarf star, center, with the first directly imaged exoplanet, 2M1207 b, in red alongside it. This image was acquired in 2004 by the Very Large...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThis illustration shows the set of real zeroes of a graph polynomial in the field of positive geometry (foreground), with a set of Feynman diagrams in the background. Although these two...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThis 1991 photo shows the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory being deployed in space on April 7, 1991, after being launched aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis. This observatory was humanity’s first space-based gamma-ray...
