Webb Space Telescope’s Cool View on How Stars and Planets Form
The ongoing success of the multi-instrument optics alignment for NASA’s Webb telescope’s near-infrared instruments has moved the attention of the commissioning team to chill as…
The ongoing success of the multi-instrument optics alignment for NASA’s Webb telescope’s near-infrared instruments has moved the attention of the commissioning team to chill as…
Hubble spots most distant single star ever seen, at a record distance of 28 billion lightyears. With a fortuitous lineup of a massive cluster of…
Arase satellite uncovers coupling between plasma waves and charged particles in Geospace Scientists unravel a bit more of the mystery underlying how wave-particle interactions generate…
Most stars in spiral galaxies form within the galaxy’s arms. Building the “skeletons” of these galaxies are galactic bones, long filaments that outline the densest…
What Is the Big Bang? The Big Bang is the popular name for the moment in time when the Universe started. The term ‘Big Bang’…
“The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) and other Webb instruments have been cooling by radiating their thermal energy into the dark of space for the bulk of…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has directly photographed evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an “intense and violent process.” This…
The MeerKAT telescope in South Africa has discovered a strong radio-wave laser known as a ‘megamaser.’ At nearly five billion light-years from Earth, the record-breaking…
Shining only ~300 million years after the Big Bang, it may be home to the oldest stars in the universe, or a supermassive black hole….
Sizzling Worlds Vaporize Most of the Dust in Their Atmospheres “When you’re hot, you’re hot!” crooned country singer Jerry Reed in a top 1971 pop…
Gravitational-waves are ripples in space-time created by distant astronomical objects and detected by large complex detectors (like LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA). Finding gravitational-wave signals in…
What Is an Asteroid? Asteroids are rocky celestial bodies that orbit the Sun, but do not meet the requirements to be classified as a planet….
A new method of identifying gravitational wave signals using quantum computing could provide a valuable new tool for future astrophysicists. A team from the University…
NASA’s Nancy Gracy Roman Space Telescope won’t launch until 2027, and it won’t start operating until some time after that. But that isn’t stopping excited…
The universe is cold and dark. And yet, within the dark, there is a faint glow of warmth. Across the sky, there are objects that…
Quantum information theory: Quantum complexity grows linearly for an exponentially long time. Physicists know about the huge chasm between quantum physics and the theory of…
There are a lot of amazing things in our Universe and a black hole is one of the most unknown. We don’t know for certain…
To look for black holes around the “Spiderweb” galaxy, astronomers observed for over 8 days with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Chandra revealed 14 actively growing…