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 NASA The 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...
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 system Amateur 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...
Scientists create “time machine” simulations studying the lifecycle of ancestor galaxy cities. Credit: Scitech Daily. Scientists have produced simulations that directly recreate the complete life cycle of a few of the biggest collections of galaxies observed. Several processes in astrophysics take a very long time, making their evolution tricky to study. A star like our sun...
This illustration reveals the accumulation disk, corona (pale, cone-shaped swirls over the disk), and also supermassive great void of energetic galaxy 1ES 1927 +654 before its recent flare-up. Credit: NASA/Sonoma State College, Aurore Simonnet. Something weird is taking place in the galaxy referred to as 1ES 1927 +654: In late 2017, and for reasons that...
Astronomers find 'gold standard' star in Milky Way. Credit: Carnegie Science There is a relatively bright star in our sun's neighborhood of the Milky Way Galaxy. Inside of it, astronomers have been able to identify the widest variety of elements in a star more than our solar system yet. The research, led by University of Michigan...
