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In a virtual event, Fincke discussed his time studying at MIT, learning the Russian language, and flying on both Russian and American spacecraft. Life was…
In a virtual event, Fincke discussed his time studying at MIT, learning the Russian language, and flying on both Russian and American spacecraft. Life was…
NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see thousands of exploding stars called supernovae across vast stretches of time and space. Using these observations,…
The visible surface of the Sun, or the photosphere, is around 6,000°C (10,000°F). But a few thousand kilometers above it – a small distance when…
Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) have described a way to determine the birth population of double neutron stars…
Researchers have confirmed the existence of magnetic plasma waves, known as Alfvén waves, in the Sun’s photosphere. The study, published in Nature Astronomy, provides new…
Japanese researchers have found that collisions of gas clouds hovering in space bring about the birth of star clusters. Stars form by the gravitational contraction…
Jupiter’s moon Europa has an icy crust covering a vast, global ocean. The rocky layer underneath may be hot enough to melt, leading to undersea…
A new map of dark matter in the local universe reveals several previously undiscovered filamentary structures connecting galaxies. The map, developed using machine learning by…
Astronomers have discovered a pulsar—a dense and rapidly spinning neutron star sending radio waves into the cosmos—using a low-frequency radio telescope in outback Australia. The…
Analyzing data obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers found a galaxy with a spiral morphology only 1.4 billion years after the Big…
Successful Start of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Follows Record-Setting Trial Run A five-year quest to map the universe and unravel the mysteries of dark…
Radio telescope images enable a new way to study magnetic fields in galaxy clusters millions of light years away. For the first time, researchers have…
Capturing the Moon with a camera is one of the most satisfying – and challenging – projects available to an outdoor photographer. Here are some…
Plans are underway for NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to make its sixth flight on the Red Planet in the next week. The flight is the…
The first detailed cross-section of a galaxy broadly similar to the Milky Way, published today, reveals that our galaxy evolved gradually, instead of being the…
Scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration use data that produced the first image of a black hole to constrain its…
The total lunar eclipse of May 26, 2021 is the first in nearly two and a half years. It occurs within hours of the closest…
This image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5037, which is found in the constellation of Virgo and was first documented by William Herschel in 1785….