Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observed and measured the coldest ice in the deepest parts of an interstellar molecular cloud to date. Frozen molecules measured at minus 440 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 263 degrees Celsius), according to new research published Jan. 23 in the journal natural astronomy (opens in a new tab). Molecular …
This view compares a lucky imaging view of Jupiter from VISIR (left) at infrared wavelengths with a very sharp amateur image in visible light at around the same time (right). Credit: ESO/LN Fletcher/Damian Peach Based in part on data from generations of Nasa Founded in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an …
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This view compares a lucky imaging view of Jupiter from VISIR (left) at infrared wavelengths with a very sharp amateur image in visible light at around the same time (right). Credit: ESO/LN Fletcher/Damian Peach Based in part on data from generations of Nasa Founded in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an …
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Light that traveled over 13.4 billion years to reach our neighborhood in space has been confirmed to have come from the oldest and most distant galaxy ever detected. This places the furthest of these four very young objects at the very dawn of the Universe, shortly after the Big Bang – a time when the …
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Artist’s impression of a comet flying through space, dragged by twin streams of gas and dust. (Image credit: Shutterstock) (opens in a new tab) A strange volcanic comet has violently erupted, spewing more than a million tons of gas, ice and the “potential building blocks of life” into the solar system. The volatile comet, known …
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Drawing: Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Center of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of Technology On February 11, astronomers saw a distant flash of light that seemed to come from a source as bright as a quadrillion suns. They alerted other scientists to the event, and several telescopes quickly swung around to focus …
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The Perseverance rover may have just found evidence of organic compounds in the rocks of Jezero Crater. Previous studies have found evidence of organic compounds on Mars before. The Curiosity Rover and the Mars-Express the orbiter has provided proof of this, as have the data from Perseverance. None of this necessarily involves any kind of …
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Hypothetical bridges connecting distant regions of space (and time) could more or less resemble various black holes, meaning it’s possible these mythical beasts of physics have been seen before. Fortunately though, if a new model proposed by a small team of physicists at Sofia University in Bulgaria is accurate, there might still be a way …
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Best fit (red curves) to the Cs IV–Cs VI lines observed in the FUSE spectrum of HD 149499B (black curves). Credit: Chayer et al, 2022 By analyzing data from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered cesium in the atmosphere of a hot white dwarf known as HD …
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Astronomers have detected three asteroids near Earth, two of which pose a potential threat as “planet killers” due to their larger and dangerous size, but don’t worry, says a NASA expert, they shouldn’t hurt us. According to findings published Monday in the peer-reviewed Astronomical Journal, the three asteroids – which belong to a group found …
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