Daniela Mata, Author at Astronomy.com

V404 Cygni triple system

Exotic Objects, Stars

This famous black hole system is actually a triple

R Aquarii system

Watch a zombie star feed on its companion

Jet from M87* supermassive black hole

Exotic Objects, Stars

Is this black hole jet making stars explode?

Exotic Objects, Galaxies

XRISM’s data debut proves its extraordinary capabilities

Galaxies, Milky Way

The Milky Way and Andromeda may not merge, after all

Artist's impression of colliding neutron stars

BlackHoleFinder invites you to discover new black holes

An image from the James Webb Space Telescope showing wispy pink-purple filaments and a scattering of stars.

What are the smallest brown dwarfs? The JWST has a new answer

ALMA detected water vapor in HL Tauri's disk. Here it’s shown in blue. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Facchini et al

Astronomers observe oceans of water vapor in a region where planets likely form

A stunning long-exposure photograph of the Perseid meteors 2023. The vertical Milky Way gives off the illusion that the inactive Mount Erciyes volcano, is active again! Credit: Kayseri Erciyes A.Ş. Ski Resort.

Astronomy invites you to view the Perseids from an inactive Turkish volcano

NASA's Valentine's Day card saying, "I nova you're the one for me!"

From cute to cringe, NASA has a Valentine’s Day card for you

By using the NASA's JPL — Small-body Database Lookup, the orbit of 469219 Kamo'oalewa can be displayed alongside Earth's orbit. The orbits appear to be nearly identical but just shifted. In the bottom-left corner it provides the distance from Kamo'oalewa to Earth and to the Sun. Credit: NASA

Evidence builds that Kamo’oalewa is a chunk of the Moon accompanying Earth

The contributions from NASA’s Chandra X-ray data provide the blue and white flickering lights from young stars and the green pine needles come from the optical data collected by the National Science Foundation’s WIYN Observatory.

Astrophotography, Exotic Objects, Observing

Merry Christmas from the cosmos