Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThis depiction of an Earth-like exoplanet showcases a rocky world with a thin atmosphere in its parent star’s habitable zone. It has oceans and continents and clouds, and could possess macroscopic...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeIn July of 1969, humanity took our first steps on the surface of another world: the Moon. This was the crowning achievement of NASA and the space program in the 1960s,...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeOriginally, the “atom” was named as such because it was thought that these building blocks of matter would be indivisible and uncuttable. Even though more time has passed since we learned...
A period of cosmic inflation stretched space flat, seeding the Universe with quantum fluctuations.Press enter or click to view image in full sizeFrom a region of space as small as can be imagined (all the way down to the Planck...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeArtist’s logarithmic scale conception of the observable universe. The Solar System gives way to the Milky Way, which gives way to nearby galaxies which then give way to the large-scale structure...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeBlack holes formed of different materials should have different information encoded on their event horizons, and it is not understood if or how that information is then encoded in the outgoing...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeWhen the entire sky is viewed in a variety of wavelengths, certain sources corresponding to distant objects beyond our galaxy are revealed. This first all-sky map from Planck includes not only...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeFrom a pre-existing state, inflation predicts that a series of universes will be spawned as inflation continues, with each one being completely disconnected from every other one, separated by more inflating...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeA section of the GOODS-N field, which contains the galaxy GN-z11, the most distant galaxy ever observed. Originally, Hubble data indicated a redshift of 11.1, a distance of 32.1 billion light-years,...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeA reviewer analyzes and evaluates a manuscript based on its merits, in this National Institute of Health photograph taken in 2016. The process of peer review, whether in grants or in...
