Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThis image illustrates NASA’s Juno mission, which sought to map out Jupiter among a variety of other science goals, on its extended mission: lasting from 2021–2025, where it is now working...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeAn illustration of the first stars turning on in the Universe. Without metals to cool down the clumps of gas that lead to the formation of the first stars, only the...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThis horizontally-oriented logarithmic map of the Universe shows how, from left-to-right, we go from Earth-sized scales to the largest cosmic distances of all. As spectacular as this logarithmic view is, it...
This animation of DESI’s 3D map of the large-scale structure in the Universe, the largest such map to date, was created with the intention of studying dark energy and its possible evolution. However, although they found evidence for dark energy...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThe difference between a Lie algebra based on the E(8) group (left) and the Standard Model (right). The Lie algebra that defines the Standard Model is mathematically a 12-dimensional entity; the...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThis animated look at black hole and neutron star populations, as revealed through both electromagnetic (red, yellow) signals and from gravitational wave events (blue, orange), showcases just how many more gravitational...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThis multi-frame animation shows interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it moves across a field of stars in this Hubble Space Telescope imagery from July 21, 2025. Observations from Hubble, SPHEREx, and JWST...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThis four-panel display shows radio, optical, X-ray and composite images of the same region of space: the supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula known colloquially as the “Hand of God.” Located...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeWhen we see something like a ball balanced precariously atop a hill, this appears to be what we call a finely-tuned state, or a state of unstable equilibrium. A much more...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeLight is well known to exhibit both wave-like and particle-like properties, as imaged here in this 2015 photograph. What’s less well appreciated is that matter particles also exhibit those wave-like properties....
