JWST's new image of NGC 7469. (ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. S. Evans) The perfect galaxy photo The James Webb Space Telescope simply gave a spiral galaxy 230 million light-years away a recent sparkling glamor shot excellent sufficient for the Christmas tree. While the galaxy has the instead un-attractive name of NGC 7469, it has been...
Credit: Mojo Vision California startup Mojo Vision finally has a human wearing its smart contact lens-- bringing the future of AR, and superhuman sight, a major step closer. Augmenting reality Unlike VR, which replaces your view of the real world with all digital graphics, augmented reality (AR) places digital pictures on top of a real world display. AR...
Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. S. Evans The photo of the month Webb'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: NASA Maybe 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...
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...
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 Schmidt New picture of the Terzan 1 cluster Whilst the James Webb Space Telescope is already showing fresh insights into the inmost recesses of the visible universe,...
A composite image from the 8 November 2022 total lunar eclipse showing the moon in various stages throughout the night. (Andrew McCarthy) We have seen some great pictures from the total lunar eclipse recently. But this one might top them all. Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy produced this incredible composite photo, showing the Moon in different eclipse phases throughout...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A set of scientists at Fudan Univerity's Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and CMA-FDU Joint Laboratory of Marine Metereology, collaborating with one associate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and another from the University of California San Diego, has discovered that weak tropical cyclones, likewise known as...
Landmark research shows 'spillover' mechanism for the rare but fatal Hendra viruses. Australian flying foxes host a virus called Hendra, which has spilled over into people and can cause a rare but deadly respiratory infection.Credit: Auscape/Universal Images Group/Getty " Hey, men, could you open your wings and show me?" states Peggy Eby, looking up at a...
Credit: Canva The model represents a shortage of planets with masses between super-Earths and mini-Neptunes A new model that represents the interaction of forces acting upon newborn planets can clarify two puzzling observations that have repeatedly turned up among the over 3,800 planetary systems cataloged to date. One puzzle called the "radius valley" refers to the rarity...
