A new study publishing this week in the Astrophysical Journal by Gary Przeau of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposes the existence of long filaments of dark matter, or “hairs.” Dark matter is an ...

ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has revealed three massive filaments of hot gas flowing towards a cluster of galaxies, uncovering a portion of the cosmic skeleton that pervades the entire Universe.

A massive filament eruption on the sun carved out a ~250,000-mile-long (~400,000 km) 'canyon of fire'. See time-lapsed footage from the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory here. Footage courtesy: NASA / ...

“Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us.” With this sentence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Kai Yang conveyed the shock that ran through the world of astrophysics following ...

Additionally, the vertical filaments measure up to 150 light-years high, surpassing the size of horizontal filaments, which measure only 5 to 10 light-years in length. While there are several hundred ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the faint glow of the diffuse cosmic web that stretches throughout the known the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Decades ago the astronomy world was taken aback by the discovery of strange vertical filaments of light spiking out from our galaxy's central black hole. Now, the astronomer responsible for that ...

Hundreds of lines made from a multitude of gases have been discovered extending outward from the black hole at the center of our galaxy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Day 23 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a spray of glowing filaments. R Aquarii is a symbiotic binary star that lies roughly 700 light-years from Earth, surrounded by a large, dynamic ...

Northwestern University astrophysicist Farhad Zadeh has been fascinated and puzzled by a family of large-scale, highly organized magnetic filaments dangling in the center of the Milky Way ever since ...