Charged gases escapes from Comet Leonard forming a tail, December 2021. This image took top prize in the 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Credit: Gerald Rhemann, Royal Museums Greenwich, Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022This majestic image is the winner of the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest.First place...
The United States is returning to the Moon 60 years after JFK's famous speech.On September 12, 1962, United States president John F Kennedy informed the public of his plan to put one man on the Moon by the decade's end.It was the height of the Cold War, and also America needed a huge victory...
Researchers observed bright flares of X-ray emissions. Image credit: Dan WilkinsResearchers at Stanford University have actually located a strange pattern while seeing the X-rays from the supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy 800 million light-yrs away. The black hole, it seems, is spewing out these rays into the universe around it.Dan...
“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....
An artist's illustration of radiation residue from the Big Bang distorted by dark matter 12 billion years ago.For the first time, dark matter from twelve billion years ago has been detected.A group of scientists from Nagoya College in Japan has collaborated to investigate the dark matter surrounding galaxies as they appeared twelve billion years...
A shower of Perseid meteors lights up the sky in 2009 in this NASA time-lapse image. Credit: NASA/JPLTypically bringing one of the most stunning yearly meteor showers visible in Earth's night sky, typically providing 50-100 "shooting stars" per hour at its peak, the Perseids are going to peak on Aug. 12 and 13. There...
Image of the Cartwheel Galaxy and its companion galaxies is a composite from Jame Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). MIRI data is colored red while NIRCam data is colored blue, orange, and yellow.Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScIThe space telescope's powerful infrared gaze offers a new sight of just how the galaxy...
On the right, the state of the James Webb Space Telescope on June 21, 2022, after an unexpectedly large micrometeoroid strike and subsequent responses, compared to the expected state on the left. Credit: NASA/STScI.A tiny space rock has shown to have a significant impact on NASA's recently operational deep-space telescope.One micrometeoroid hit the James Webb...
A full moon, known as the "Strawberry Moon" is shown split in half, June 15, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/JOE SKIPPERThe brand-new project entails putting three guardian satellites carrying loads of fuel and kinetic weapons into the moon's orbit around the Earth.China's "Planetary Defense System" has been capturing momentum recently, with Beijing researchers now planning to...
The large radio telescope and an illustration of the signal. (CHIME/MIT)A brand-new radio signal from deep space is once again challenging our understanding of these mysterious phenomena.Not only is this brand-new fast radio burst, called FRB 20191221A, another extremely rare repeater, but it is not even that quick: the radio flashes received across intergalactic...
