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...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA team of physicists affiliated with many institutions in the united state has collaborated on a paper that discusses the possibility of utilizing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) to search for proof of aliens piloting giant spacecraft around the Milky Way. They team has posted their paper on the arXiv...
Credit: NASAMaybe you believe that one Earth is sufficient. However, what if the number was in the billions? According to a recent research study, the number of Earth-like planets in our Milky Way galaxy can approach 6 billion.Astronomers at the College of British Columbia (UBC) examined information from NASA's Kepler project and also came...
Alexandr Gnezdilov Light Painting/Moment/GettyThe wonderful step taken by physicistsPhysicists have just taken an wonderful step regarding quantum devices that seems like something out of science fiction.For the first time, isolated sets of particles acting like unusual states of matter known as time crystals have been connected into a single, advancing system that could...
SpaceX's massive Starship rocket remains to pass key tests on its road to sending the Mars-bound launch system up to orbit for the 1st time.The private space firm fired 7 Raptor engines on its Starship Super Heavy prototype, called Booster seven, on Monday, September nineteen. As Space.com points out, it´s the highest number of...
Artist’s impression of an ultra-hot Jupiter transiting its starUtilizing the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have spotted the heaviest element ever found in an exoplanet atmosphere-- barium.They were surprised to find barium at high altitudes in the atmospheres of the ultra-hot gas giants WASP-76 b and WASP-121 b-- two...
V-band image of NGC 2915 obtained by collapsing the wavelength dimension of the MUSE data cube. Credit: Tang et al, 2022Galaxy NGC 2915Utilizing the Very Large Telescope (VLT), Chinese astronomers have inquired a next blue compact dwarf galaxy known as NGC 2915. Outcomes of the research, shown in a paper released October 12th on...
This image, taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the globular cluster Terzan 1. Credit: NASA & ESA, Acknowledgement: Judy SchmidtNew picture of the Terzan 1 clusterWhilst the James Webb Space Telescope is already showing fresh insights into the inmost recesses of the visible universe,...
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...
Ad Astra’s rocket will travel ten times quicker than today’s chemical rockets while using one-tenth the amount of fuel.NASA lately delivered $10 million in financing to Ad Astra Rocket Company of Texas for more development of its Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR), an electromagnetic thruster efficient of propelling a spaceship to Mars in...
