JWST's new image of NGC 7469. (ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. S. Evans)The perfect galaxy photoThe James Webb Space Telescope simply gave a spiral galaxy 230 million light-years away a recent sparkling glamor shot excellent sufficient for the Christmas tree.While the galaxy has the instead un-attractive name of NGC 7469, it has been...
Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. S. EvansThe photo of the monthWebb's photo of the month for December is dominated by NGC 7469, a luminous, face-on spiral galaxy approximately 90,000 light-years in diameter that lies roughly 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.This spiral galaxy has recently been studied as...
Orion passed a mere 130km (80 miles) from the lunar surface at closest approach. Credit: NasaThe US space agency's Orion capsule is coming homeThe spacecraft performed a significant engine burn on Monday in the vicinity of the Moon, giving it an orbit that will result in a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday.It...
Data from 25 comets were compiled to test predictions of solar system formation and evolution.A current research study from the College of Central Florida has discovered solid support that the outgassing of particles from comets could be the outcome of the composition from the start of our solar system.The outcomes were released today in...
his is an artist's impression of two neutron stars colliding. The smashup between two dense stellar remnants unleashes the energy of 1,000 standard stellar nova explosions. In the aftermath of the collision a blowtorch jet of radiation is ejected at nearly the speed of light. The jet is directed along a narrow beam confined...
An astronaut aboard the space shuttle Atlantis captured this image of the Hubble Space Telescope on May 19, 2009. Credits: NASANASA and SpaceX authorized an unfunded Space Act Agreement Thursday, Sept. 22nd, to study the feasibility of a SpaceX and Polaris Program concept to boost the agency's Hubble Space Telescope into a greater orbit...
The James Webb image of SMACS 0723. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScIJames Webb first Full-color images help astronomers make a new discovery.James Webb's discovery is yet to give us not just a new insight but also a treasure trove of data held by every image it has released.The first full-color James Webb image,...
“Cosmic Cliffs” in the Carina NebulaAstronomers' beliefs are The famed James Webb SpaceTelescope, released 8 months back and orbiting the sun a million miles from Earth, has begun bringing up several questions for astronomers as its striking images flood in.Unsurprisingly, the telescope has offered some intriguing and exciting observations of the very distant universe....
Arp 282. (ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey, DOE, FNAL/DECam, CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, SDSS, J. Schmidt)The recurring interaction between two galaxies 320 million light-years away has been recorded in a spectacular Hubble picture.They are collectively named Arp 282 in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. They feature a large barred spiral galaxy called NGC 169, approximately 140,000 light-years across, and a considerably...
The Gaia spacecraft's view of the Milky Way galaxy, with purple marking the remains of the Pontus galaxy. (Image credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)The massive appetite of a GalaxyThe Milky Way galaxy devoured more galaxies in its early days than astronomers assumed.The Gaia spacecraft discovered the remains of an ancient cosmic collision in...
