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...
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...
