A pulsar with its jets and magnetic fields. Credit: NASAFar out in the Milky Way, about 22,000 light-years from Earth, a star unlike any other roars with a magnetic power that beats anything physicists have seen before.At an enormous 1.6 billion Tesla, a pulsar named Swift J0243.6+6124 smashes the previous records of around one...
Today we were in a frenzy over a sneaky side-glimpse of a galaxy revealed in the first full-color James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) pictures.However, if you thought that was wild, then wait on this: it ends up JWST has also went down some stealthy images of Jupiter! And they are ridiculously beautiful.These photos, taken...
Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have mapped the composition of asteroid Psyche, revealing a surface of metal, sand, and rock. Credit: Screenshot courtesy of NASAThe different surface recommends a dynamic history that could include metallic eruptions, asteroid-shaking impacts, also a lost rocky mantle.Later this year, NASA is defining to launch a probe the size...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft deploying its solar arrays. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterStarting on May 6 and continuing through June 16, NASA's Lucy mission group carried out a multi-stage effort planned to deploy the spacecraft's unlatched solar array further. Throughout the thorough process, the team commanded the spacecraft to operate the array's deployment motor...
A wonder of engineering, Webb is able to gaze further into the cosmos than any telescope before it thanks to its enormous primary mirror and its instruments that focus on infrared, allowing it peer through dust and gas.NASA administrator Bill Nelson stated Wednesday that the agency will reveal the "inmost picture of our universe...
Discovered in 1950, this galaxy is known as Hoag's object, and is the first known instance of a ring galaxy. It's highly unusual, with an elliptical, very red center, a large gap between the nucleus and the outer ring, and the blue, young stars in the outer ring have no identifiable trigger leading to...
Artist's Impression of a comet passing through our solar systemAmateur astronomers may very soon be able to see a comet initially spotted in 2017.Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS), abridged as K2 for brief, was once the most distant active comet ever before pinpointed, a difference it recently ceded to the mega comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, found out...
MIT astronomers have discovered a new multiplanet system that exists just 10 parsecs, or approximately 33 light-years, from Earth, making it one of the closest known multiplanet systems to our own. The star at the system's heart likely hosts at least two terrestrial, Earth-sized planets. Credit: MIT News, with TESS Satellite figure courtesy of...
But do not be too thrilled-- the researchers say it might easily just be a misidentified transmission from us humans.Credit: NASA.A group of Chinese and American researchers put their reputation on the line with a bold claim: that, with many caveats, a recently identified narrowband signal could indicate intelligent extraterrestrial life.The uncommon signal-- captured...
Hidden magnetic field lines stretch millions of light years across the universe. Credit: Quanta Magazine.When we look into space, all of the astrophysical objects seen are enclosed in magnetic fields. This holds not only in the neighborhood of stars and planets but likewise in the deep space between galaxies and galactic clusters.These fields are...
