Posts by Author: Soumyadeep Mukherjee

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has given us another look at one of the strangest shapes in the sky, the nebula MSH 15-52, often called the…

When scientists talk about the Sun, they often call it “active” or “quiet.” Those words might sound gentle, but they hide a reality that can…

For decades, Uranus has seemed like a fairly well-mapped world. Voyager 2 flew past in 1986, Hubble tracked its changing atmosphere, and astronomers counted 28…

Astronomers have captured a remarkable radio image of the blazar PKS 1424+240. For the first time, we see its plasma jet almost perfectly head-on. In…

The latest picture from Hubble features NGC 2835, a face-on spiral galaxy about 35 million light-years away in Hydra. The image looks familiar at first…

When astronomers turned the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) toward the deep universe, they expected to see faint smudges from the earliest galaxies. Instead, they…

Astronomers have long searched for the heaviest black holes in the universe. These giants, called ultramassive black holes, contain tens of billions of solar masses….

NASA’s Perseverance rover recently photographed an eye-catching rock in Jezero Crater. The shape looks like an old helmet, with a pointed crown and a flared…