The Circinus West molecular cloud has been captured by the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam). DECam is mounted on the ...

The dark shadow overlaid on a starry background is known as the Circinus West molecular cloud. Circinus West is a cold, dense cloud of gas and dust that stretches out for 180 light-years, around ...

A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image captured from Chile with the 570-megapixel Department of Energy–fabricated Dark Energy Camera—one of the ...

There’s something special going on in the nearby Circinus galaxy, as revealed by this image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The Circinus galaxy is located in the […] ...

Sebastian Heinz and his team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) discovered that Circinus X-1 is less than 4,600 years old, making it the youngest X-ray binary system ever seen.

An international research team led by Konrad Tristram from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, obtained the most detailed view so far of the warm dust in the environment of ...

Circinus West: A dark nebula harboring a nest of newly formed stars A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image captured from Chile with the 570 ...