Unlocking the Mystery of the Early Universe Depends on Estimating the Lifespan of Neutrons
When we look into the night sky, we see the universe as it once was. We know that in the past the universe was once…
Atronomy
Astronomers Confirm Third-Nearest Star With a Planet – And It’s Rocky Like Earth
MAROON-X instrument built by University of Chicago team measures its first planet. In the past two decades, scientists have discovered more and more planets orbiting…
Hubble Views Turbulent Birthing Ground Orion B Molecular Cloud Complex
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope views a newborn star shooting twin jets out into space as a sort of birth announcement to the universe. Just in…
NASA Reveals New Visualization of Space Environment at Pluto
Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, the Space Weather Research Center (SWRC) and the Community-Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), Enlil and Dusan Odstrcil…
WISE Detects Two Entwined Supermassive Black Holes
Using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, astronomers have detected two supermassive black holes circling each other at the heart of a distant galaxy. Astronomers have…
Hubble Views Star Clusters in the Early Stages of Merging
Located 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a pair of star clusters in the gigantic 30 Doradus nebula are believed to be in…
A Vapor of Stars from Galaxy DDO 82
A new image made up of exposures taken in visible and infrared light by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys shows galaxy DDO 82, which is…