Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys Celebrates 20 Years of Discovery. Credit: NASA The ACS continues to deliver ground-breaking science. When astronauts installed the Advanced Camera…
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Unprecedented Opportunity To Investigate the Next Interstellar Visitor With the Webb Space Telescope
This artist’s impression shows the first interstellar object discovered in the Solar System, `Oumuamua. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser Scientists will learn about objects…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center After starting the mirror alignment with Webb’s first detection of starlight in the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), the telescope team…
This illustration shows the cold side of the Webb telescope, where the mirrors and instruments are positioned. Credit: Northrop Grumman While we have started the…
This is an artist’s Illustration of the mini-Neptune TOI 560.01, located 103 light-years away in the Hydra constellation. The planet, which orbits closely to its…
The Violent Star Eta Carinae Model Is Based On Multiwavelength Observations It was once one of the brightest stars in the heavens, easily visible to…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center An international research team will survey the stars, star clusters, and dust that lie within 19 nearby galaxies. To…
Dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10 sparkles with young stars in this Hubble visible-light image. The bright region at the center, surrounded by pink clouds and…
Artist’s illustration of the Local Bubble with star formation occurring on the bubble’s surface. Scientists have now shown how a chain of events beginning 14…
This artist’s rendering shows a view of our own Milky Way Galaxy and its central bar as it might appear if viewed from above. An…
This is a composite view of X-rays, molecular gas, and warm ionized gas near the galactic center. The orange-colored features are of glowing hydrogen gas.…
Illustration of simulated Webb images of quasar and galaxy surrounding quasar. Researchers will take images of each target with Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), like the…
Credit: NASA, ESA, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley). Joseph DePasquale (STScI) Stunning Yearly Observations Reveal Changes to Gas Giants’ Atmospheres In Greek…
Illustration showing what exoplanet GJ 1214 b could look like based on current information. GJ 1214 b, a warm sub-Neptune-sized exoplanet roughly 48 light-years from…
Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute Ice Sublimating Off the Surface Replenishes a Tenuous Envelope You would think that living half-a-billion miles from the Sun…
This Hubble Space Telescope snapshot shows three magnified images of a distant galaxy embedded in a cluster of galaxies. These images are produced by a…
Giant Galaxy Cluster Magnifies the Light from a Distant Supernova and Splits It into Multiple Images People over the centuries haven’t been shy about making…
This pair (see below for other image) of Hubble Space Telescope images of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), taken on April 20 and April 23, 2020,…
The COSMOS-Webb survey will map 0.6 square degrees of the sky—about the area of three full Moons—using the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Camera…
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Credit: NASA The Space Telescope Science Institute Will Host Roman’s Science Operations Center and Data Archive NASAEstablished in 1958,…