Cosmic

Astro-inspired jewellery has really gained popularity over the last few years. These pieces can be seen as modern-day talismans that connect us to our true selves, but also to the cosmos. Keep on reading to learn more about the history…

Astrophysicists Matt Dobbs (right) and Vicki Kaspi are seen in the instrumentation lab at McGill University's Space Institute. The institute has received a $16 million donation from the Trottier Family Foundation to support its work with…

Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) captured this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across. It displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars that…

Scientists on Tuesday published the latest images from NASA’s triumphant James Webb Space Telescope. The newest release documents the Cartwheel galaxy, which is about 500 million light-years from our planet and is aptly named for its…

Astronomers have created the largest ever 3D map of 1 million distant galaxies otherwise obscured by the Milky Way's dwarf galaxy neighbors, the Magellanic Clouds. The Magellanic Clouds are irregularly shaped galaxies that are a…

Way out there in space is a class of objects called blazars. Think of them as extreme particle accelerators, able to marshall energies a million times stronger than the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. It turns out they’re the…

A team of astronomers have used the ALMA telescope to find a slowly-rotating galaxy in the early Universe. That galaxy is the youngest ever found with a measured rotation, and it's much slower than present-day galaxies.  All galaxies…

June 13, 2022, Mountain View, CA – New research detected strong polarization from a young supernova remnant. It provided independent and solid evidence that the cosmic dust in the early…

For tens of millions of years, our newborn Universe was shrouded in hydrogen. Bit by bit, this vast mist was torn apart by the light of the very first stars in a dawn that defined the shape of the emerging cosmos.  Having a timeline for…

By ESA/Hubble May 8, 2022Hubble Space Telescope image of an object known as DEM L249, the tattered remnant of a supernova. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Y. ChuThe tattered remnant of a supernova — a titanic explosion marking the end of…