Illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: Northrop Grumman NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of…
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Astronomers using the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, have discovered the closest-known black hole to Earth. This is the first unambiguous detection of…
A team of scientists, comprising experts from the University of Chicago and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, have made a game-changing announcement with their release of…
This is an artist’s impression of the first confirmed detection of a star system that will one day form a kilonova — the ultra-powerful, gold-producing…
Webb Space Telescope Glitch Likely Caused by Galactic Cosmic Ray – NIRISS Returns to Full Operations
Webb Space Telescope Glitch Likely Caused by Galactic Cosmic Ray – NIRISS Returns to Full Operations
In addition to looking at distant stars, galaxies and exoplanets, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will investigate our Solar System. Credit: Northrup Grumman On…
An artist’s impression of the gamma-ray burst GRB191221B. Credit: Urata et al./Yu-Sin Huang/MITOS Science CO., LTD Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest explosions in the cosmos,…
Hubble Space Telescope snapshot of the Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus). Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray, E. Sabbi, Acknowledgment: Y.-H. Chu A…
Light Pollution Impact 1 – From excellent dark sky (left) to inner city sky (right). This graphic illustrates how the greater the amount of light…
A lonely Milky Way analog galaxy, too massive for its wall. The background image shows the distribution of dark matter (green and blue) and galaxies…
Ashley Chontos, Princeton’s Henry Norris Russell Postdoctoral Fellow in Astrophysics, was part of a team discovering that Kepler-1658b is spiraling to its doom around its…
An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of diverse ices in the darkest regions of a cold molecular cloud measured to date by…
Caption: An MIT study finds that, for now, the catalog of known black hole binaries does not reveal anything fundamental about how black holes form.…
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to look deep into the heart of the pair of merging galaxies known as UGC 4211 discovered…
This Hubble Space Telescope image features the bright variable star V 372 Orionis and its smaller companion in the upper left. Both are located in…
Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects —…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare in 2014. The solar flare is the bright flash of light on the right…
Scientists studying masers— naturally occurring lasers that amplify microwave radio emissions— around the massive star MWC 349A discovered a 500 km/s jet of material launching…
Light Pollution Impact – From excellent dark sky (left) to inner city sky (right). Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, P. Marenfeld Visibility of Stars in the Night Sky…
NGC 346, shown here in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a dynamic star cluster that lies within a…
One of the dishes of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) near Pune, Maharashtra, India. Credit: National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Probing galaxies at much…