Every shell is racing away from the stars at more than 1,600 miles per second (2,600 kilometers per second), almost 1% the speed of light. “We are used to thinking about events in space taking place slowly, over millions or billions of years,” added Jennifer Hoffman, a co-author and a professor at the University of … Read more
The Hubble Space Telescope has been operating for over three decades and continues to make ground-breaking discoveries that shape our fundamental understanding of the universe. Hubble is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope and mission operations. Lockheed Martin … Read more
Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine select star-forming areas in the Extreme Outer Galaxy in near- and mid-infrared light. Within this star-forming region, known as Digel Cloud 2S, the telescope observed young, newly formed stars and their extended jets of material. This Webb image also shows a dense sea of background galaxies … Read more
In March 2017, NASA Astrophysics Division selected the Explorer Mission of Opportunity GUSTO (Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory) to measure emissions from the interstellar medium to help scientists determine the life cycle of interstellar gas by surveying a large region of our Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud. The GUSTO mission is led … Read more
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected signs of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere of a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star over a thousand light years away, the US space agency said on Wednesday. The observation is the most detailed of its kind to date, … Read more
The Milky Way has roughly four malicious extra-terrestrial civilisations that could attack Earth, a researcher has claimed. Alberto Caballero, a PhD student at University of Vigo in Spain, said he pinpointed the exact source of the “WoW Signal”, detected in 1977, reports said. The WoW Signal was a strange, minute-long radio energy burst. Caballero said … Read more
The universe’s expansion rate has fascinated astronomers for a long time. Since the initial studies by Edwin P. Hubble and Georges Lemaitre in the 1920s to the discovery of ‘dark energy’ in the 1990s, the field has advanced slowly but steadily. The Hubble Space Telescope has provided a huge amount of data to study and … Read more
Astronomers have revealed the first visual of a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way — the Earth’s galaxy. Known as Sagittarius A* (Sagittarius A-star), the object is four million times the mass of the Earth’s Sun. The image — produced by the global team known as the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration … Read more
There is also the promise of more such additions as NASA readies its $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope for planet-gazing in deep space. Astronomers have added the 5,000th exoplanet to the NASA Exoplanet Archive, the agency’s officials at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have said. NASA hit the milestone mark following the discovery … Read more
Located in the NGC 5731 galaxy, approximately 120 million light-years from Earth, the particular star was 10 times bigger than the sun when it exploded. A star explodes almost every second or so somewhere in the universe, and scientists got a front-row seat to witness one for the first time in the history of astronomy. … Read more