NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope measured the colliding stars, which seemed to be traveling at a higher velocity due to an illusion. A jet of radiation from the collision of 2 neutron stars travels at speeds greater than 99.97% of the speed of light. The crash and formation The event, called GW170817, was observed in 2017 […]
Hubble Detects a Jet Blasting From a Star Crash at 99.97% the Velocity of Light Read More »
Ancient microbes on Mars likely triggered a climate change that led to their own demise, a report from Space.com explains. The study was published in Nature Astronomy, and it details how simple microbes that fed on hydrogen and excreted methane were likely abundant on Mars approximately 3.7 billion years back. This was at roughly the
Ancient Martian Life Might Have Created the Conditions For Its Own Extinction Read More »
Researchers from Durham University’s Institute for Computational Cosmology used the most precise supercomputer simulations ever, revealing an alternative for how the Moon formed 4.5 billion years ago. It showed that a colossal impact between Earth and a Mars-sized body could place a Moon-like body into Earth’s orbit. Next level simulations In their hunt for circumstances
A Supercomputer Simulations Gives us a New Look at The Formation of the Moon Read More »
The highest-resolution photo NASA’s Juno objective has ever taken of a specific portion of Jupiter’s moon Europa shows a detailed view of a puzzling region of the moon’s greatly fractured icy crust. The picture covers about 93 miles (150 kilometers) by 125 miles (200 kilometres) of Europa’s surface, revealing an area crisscrossed with a network
NASA’s Juno Gets the Highest-Resolution Close-Up of Jupiter’s Moon Europa Read More »
NASA 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 with the Dragon spacecraft at no cost to the government. There are no plans for NASA to carry out or fund
NASA And SpaceX Explore the Idea of Shifting Hubble to a More Stable Orbit Read More »
James 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, released by President Joe Biden on July 11, reveals a vast
James Webb Helps Astronomers Look to the Past of the Universe Read More »
After NASA deliberately crushes a car-sized spacecraft into an asteroid the following week, it´ll be up to European Space Agency’s Hera mission to investigate the “crime scene” and discover the secrets of these potentially devastating space rocks. NASA’s Dual Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) aims to collide with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on Monday night, hoping
After The Asteroid Collision, Europe’s Hera Will Probe ‘Crime Scene’ Read More »
An international research group has discovered that the 1st continents were not stable and also were recycled inside the Earth, in the mantle. The research, released today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is significant because it provides essential clues on how planets formed. “The rocks in the core of the
Geologists Shed Recent Light On How Continents May Have Been Formed Read More »
Astronomers today comprehend the fundamentals of how planets are brought into existence yet have failed to observe the process so far, despite using state-of-the-art resources. Now, a team of astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian have engineered a new means to spot these elusive newborn planets, according to news published by the
New Method for Detecting Newborn Planets May Revolutionize Astronomy Read More »
This majestic image is the winner of the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest. First place went to an image so remarkable it almost doesn’t look real. Austrian photographer Gerald Rhemann captured the image of Comet Leonard and its radiant tail on Christmas Day, 2021, from Namibia, an article from Live Science reveals. Rhemann’s
An Amazing Image of a Comet Humans Might Never See Again Read More »