Sparkling Dreams: Hubble Space Telescope Head in the Clouds
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features a small portion of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Located only about 200,000 light-years from Earth,…
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Don’t Miss: Lunar Occultation – Mars Disappears
What are some skywatching highlights in December 2022? The Moon sweeps past Jupiter twice this month, and actually covers Mars completely, in an event called…
Cataclysmic Neutron Star Mergers and the Origin of Elements in the Universe
Neutron star mergers have been confirmed to synthesize rare Earth elements. For the first time, a group of scientists has identified rare earth elements produced…
New Innovative System Evaluates the Habitability of Distant Planets
A computerized system categorizes planet atmospheres and determines which are viable for future settlement by humans. The climate crisis poses a significant challenge to all…
Webb and Keck Telescopes Team for Unprecedented Look at Saturn’s Moon Titan – “Simply Extraordinary!”
On the morning of Saturday, November 5, an international team of planetary scientists woke up with great delight to the first Webb images of Saturn’s…
Never-Before-Seen Molecule: Webb Reveals a “Hot Saturn” Exoplanet Atmosphere
New Webb Space Telescope observations of WASP-39 b reveal a never-before-seen molecule in the atmosphere of a planet — sulfur dioxide — among other details….
Lost for Centuries: Scientists Discover Texts From an Ancient Astronomical Catalog
Written over 2000 years ago, the Hipparchus Star Catalogue is the oldest known attempt to determine the precise position of fixed stars. Fragments of the…
Supermassive Black Hole Violently Rips Star Apart, Launches Relativistic Jet Toward Earth
Rare Sighting of Luminous Jet Spewed by Supermassive Black Hole Astronomers discover a bright optical flare caused by a dying star’s encounter with a supermassive…
Mysterious Astronomical Signal Is Black Hole Jet Pointing Straight Toward Earth
Astronomers have determined the source of an incredibly bright X-ray, optical, and radio signal appearing from halfway across the Universe. Named AT 2022cmc, the signal…
Cosmic Chocolate Pralines: Physicists’ Surprising Discovery About Neutron Star Structure
Physicists model more than one million equations of state to uncover other previously unexplained properties of neutron stars. Through extensive model calculations, physicists at Goethe…
James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Oldest Star Clusters in the Universe
A team of astronomers used the James Webb Telescope (JWST) to identify the most distant globular clusters ever discovered. These dense groups of millions of stars…
Celestial Fireworks Display: Hubble Captures Shreds of Luridly Colored Supernova Remnant
In this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shreds of the luridly colored supernova remnant DEM L 190 seem to billow across the screen….
See the Far Side of the Moon: Incredibly Detailed Pictures From Artemis I Orion Close Lunar Flyby
The Earth is seen setting from the far side of the Moon just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this video taken on the sixth day…
Astronomers Trace Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Farther Into Distant Universe
Most robust inventory to date catalogs SGRBs’ host galaxies and characteristics. Using observations and modeling, astronomers pinpointed the origins of 84 SGRBs, quadrupling existing samples….
Black Holes More Powerful Than Thought – Magnetic Fields Reach Deeper Into Galaxies
Magnetic Fields Help Black Holes Reach Deeper Into Galaxies Black holes potentially have an even larger influence on the galaxies around them than we thought….
Astrophysicists Solve 40-Year-Old Black Hole Jet Mystery With NASA’s IXPE
Blazars are some of the brightest objects in the cosmos. They are composed of a supermassive black hole feeding off material swirling around it in…
As Never Seen Before: NASA’s Webb Reveals an Exoplanet Unlike Any in Our Solar System
Observations of Exoplanet WASP-39b show fingerprints of atoms and molecules, as well as signs of active chemistry and clouds. WASP-39 b is a planet unlike…
Hubble Hunts an Unusual Galaxy – Distorted by Gravity and Twisted Into a Colossal Ring
Stealing the spotlight in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391. The Arp-Madore catalogue is a compilation of…
