JWST confirmed the most distant galaxy ever observed at 13.5 billion light years away
With James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA has confirmed its sightings of the farthest known galaxy to date,…
February Astronomy: You Can See Six of the Seven Other Planets in February Early Evenings—and Prepare for a Total Lunar Eclipse Early on March 3
In the skies of Earth in February, six of the seven other planets—all except Mars—can be seen in…
SpaceX Won’t Go Public Until the Planets Literally Align, Sources Say
After more than two decades as a private company, it was beginning to feel as though Elon Musk’s…
The mass distribution in and around the Local Group
Figure 1 is a Hubble diagram. The points in blue show the 31 isolated galaxies used to constrain…
An ultra-high-resolution map of (dark) matter
Massey, R. et al. The Shear Testing Programme 2: factors affecting high-precision weak-lensing analyses. Mon. Not. R. Astron.…
University of Southern Queensland astronomer discovers ‘potentially habitable’ planet candidate
Australian astronomers have led an international study that has discovered a candidate for a “potentially habitable” Earth-sized planet…
570-Megapixel Dark Energy Camera Unravels Mysteries of the Dark Universe
The Bullet Cluster is made up of two galaxy clusters that are colliding, one moving through the other,…
Astronomers identify a possible massive moon with water orbiting a distant world |
Astronomers identify a possible massive moon with water orbiting a distant world (AI-generated) Astronomers are testing a quieter…
Is Betelgeuse about to explode into a supernova? Astronomers finally have an answer
Between late 2019 and early 2020, the red supergiant Betelgeuse showed signs of weakening that led many to…
‘India is beautiful from space…I saw how light connects people in the subcontinent’ | India News
You are in India after 12 years. What are your fondest memories from the last visit? Being in…
Supermassive black hole grows 13 times faster than cosmic speed limits
Japanese astronomers have discovered an extraordinary supermassive black hole in the early universe that is growing at a…
‘Eye of Sauron’ nebula could give glimpse of Sun’s death | Features
(NASA/NOAO/ESA/Hubble/STScI/NRAO via SWNS) By Dean Murray A jaw-dropping new view of the “Eye of Sauron” nebula may give…