NASA missions explore a ‘TIE Fighter’ active galaxy
Credit: NRAO Not so long ago, astronomers mapped a galaxy far, far away using radio waves and found it has ...
Tag: Astronomy
Tracing the cosmic origin of complex organic molecules with their radiofrequency footprint
Scientists confirm the presence of acetonitrile in a distant interstellar gas cloud using a radio telescopeCredit: Tokyo University of Science ...
Ground segment testing a success for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Credit: Northrop Grumman Testing teams have successfully completed a critical milestone focused on demonstrating that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ...
Observing ancient neutrinos
Super-Kamiokande gets an upgrade to see neutrinos from ancient supernovaeCredit: © 2020 Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), ...
Hubble snaps close-up of comet NEOWISE
Credit: NASA, ESA, Q. Zhang (California Institute of Technology), A. Pagan (STScI) The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the ...
Hubble snaps close-up of celebrity comet NEOWISE
Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Pagan (STScI), and Q. Zhang (Caltech) NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of comet NEOWISE, taken on ...
Spinning black hole powers jet by magnetic flux
Credit: Amit Shukla / Indian Institute of Technology Indore Black holes are at the center of almost all galaxies that ...
Research team develops the first physics-based method for predicting large solar flares
Credit: Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University Solar flares emit sudden, strong bursts of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun's ...
Microscopic deformation of a neutron star inferred from a distance of 4500 light-years
Credit: Sudip Bhattacharyya Imagine that the size of a bacterium is measured from a distance of about 4500 light-years. This ...
NASA’s Webb to study quasars and their host galaxies in three dimensions
Credit: Credits: STScI Supermassive black holes, which likely reside at the centers of virtually all galaxies, are unimaginably dense, compact ...
Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth, study shows
Credit: Graphic courtesy Jesse Miller CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Imagine reading by the light of an exploded star, brighter than a ...
Cool new worlds found in our cosmic backyard
Citizen scientists and NOIRLab facilities key to discovery of almost 100 nearby cool brown dwarfsCredit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld Acknowledgement: William Pendrill ...
100 cool worlds found near the sun
Citizen scientists help locate some of the coolest brown dwarfs ever discoveredCredit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld; acknowledgement: William Pendrill Maunakea, Hawaii - ...
A stepping stone for measuring quantum gravity
Theoretical design for gravitational wave detector has many additional applicationsCredit: R. Marshman et al A group of theoretical physicists, including ...
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