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Art depicting a black hole (lower right) orbiting a more massive star

The first dormant black hole likely found lurking in another galaxy

It orbits a monster star but isn't feeding off it.

By Phil Plait 10 months ago

Lmc pulsar Askap

One of the brightest pulsars ever seen was somehow missed despite being right next door

Luminous beacon was probably dismissed as a galaxy.

By Phil Plait 1 year ago

M92, a globular cluster about 27,000 light years from Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Gilles Chapdelaine

It's galactic cannibalism all the way down

A satellite galaxy of the Milky Way ate a satellite galaxy of its own.

By Phil Plait 1 year ago

Phil Plait Bad Astronomy Art Blackhole Ngc1850 Press

Black hole in Milky Way satellite galaxy found as it tosses around its companion

It has a mass equivalent to 11.1 Suns.

By Phil Plait 1 year ago

A cluster of stars is forming the nebula NGC 2014, located about 160,000 light years from Earth in a neighboring galaxy.

Cosmic beauty and terror mark the 30th anniversary of Hubble Space Telescope

By Phil Plait 3 years ago

eROSITA observation of the interacting galaxy clusters Abell 3391 and 3395. An image in three X-ray colors shows the clusters (left), and a different view highlights the gas connecting them (right).

eROSITA is now scanning the skies for X-rays

By Phil Plait 3 years ago

The Milky Way is a disk galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars. A new study indicates it underwent a burst of vigorous star formation that peaked about 2 billion years ago. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech)

The Milky Way stole a lot of its satellite galaxies from another small galaxy

By Phil Plait 3 years ago

The Tarantula Nebula in infrared isn’t quite as showy as it is in visible light, but it’s still impressive. Credit: ESO/VMC Survey

Reassessing an irregular spiral: A spectacular image of the Large Magellanic Cloud

By Phil Plait 3 years ago

The Tarantula Nebula is a sprawling gas cloud in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and one of the largest star-forming regions in the local Universe. Credit: Jean Claude Canonne, Philippe Bernhard, Didier Chaplain, Nicolas Outters, and Laurent Bourgon

'Amateur' astronomers create an incredible 1000+ hour image of a galactic neighbor

By Phil Plait 4 years ago

A close-up of the reddish splotch in the globular cluster NGC 1898. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

The imperfect perfection of the star cluster NGC 1898

By Phil Plait 4 years ago