NASA’s James Webb “Powerhouse” Solar Array Reconnects to the Space Telescope
One kilowatt is about what it takes to heat up some leftovers in a microwave — or to power the largest and most technically advanced…
One kilowatt is about what it takes to heat up some leftovers in a microwave — or to power the largest and most technically advanced…
First clear confirmation of accretion disk formation in a tidal disruption event without x-ray emissions supports theoretical predictions. When a star passes too close to…
In a landmark study, scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the immense envelope of gas, called a halo, surrounding the Andromeda galaxy, our…
Maunakea Observatories Discover Three Pairs of Merging Supermassive Black Holes A cosmic dance between two merging galaxies, each one containing a supermassive black hole that’s…
Until now, these flows of material had been detected only in other wavelength ranges, such as X-rays or the visible, depending on the phase in…
New machine learning algorithm designed by astronomers and computer scientists from University of Warwick confirms new exoplanets in telescope data Sky surveys find thousands of…
A new letter has been found in the mysterious alphabet of black holes. Two astrophysicists share this discovery in the journal Nature Communications. Black holes…
Astronomers have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to ultra-wide field-of-view images of the distant Universe captured by the Subaru Telescope, and have achieved a very high…
Meteorites give us insight into the early development of the solar system. Using the SAPHiR instrument at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II)…
Late on August 16, 2020, the Sun released a burst of light and energy known as a solar flare. This B1-class solar flare – the…
Our solar system has one habitable planet — Earth. A new study shows other stars could have as many as seven Earth-like exoplanets in the…
Dome A, the highest ice dome on the Antarctic Plateau, could offer the clearest view on Earth of the stars at night, according to new…
While appearing as a delicate and light veil draped across the sky, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope actually depicts a small section…
New simulations show that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to reveal myriad rogue planets – freely floating bodies that drift through…
Supermassive black holes, which likely reside at the centers of virtually all galaxies, are unimaginably dense, compact regions of space from which nothing — not…
New observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star Betelgeuse was most likely caused by an immense…
Called “calcium-rich supernovae,” these stellar explosions are so rare that astrophysicists have struggled to find and subsequently study them. The nature of these supernovae and…
Citizen scientists and NOIRLab facilities key to discovery of almost 100 nearby cool brown dwarfs. How complete is our census of the Sun’s closest neighbors?…