Cheers! NASA’s Webb Finds Ethanol, Other Icy Ingredients for Worlds

Cheers! NASA’s Webb Finds Ethanol, Other Icy Ingredients for Worlds

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) has identified a variety of complex organic molecules that are present in interstellar ices surrounding two protostars. These molecules, which are key ingredients for making potentially habitable worlds, include ethanol, formic acid, methane, and likely acetic acid, in the solid phase. The finding came from the study … Read more

NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Far Side – NASA

NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Far Side – NASA

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has announced plans for an unprecedented survey of the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. It will peer deeper into this region than any other survey, mapping more of our galaxy’s stars than all previous observations combined. “There’s a really broad range of science we can explore with … Read more

Hubble Uncovers a Celestial Fossil – NASA Science

Hubble Uncovers a Celestial Fossil – NASA Science

2 min read Hubble Uncovers a Celestial Fossil This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a densely populated group of stars, the globular cluster NGC 1841. ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini This densely populated group of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1841, which is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy … Read more

Webb Finds Evidence for Neutron Star at Heart of Young Supernova Remnant – NASA Science

Webb Finds Evidence for Neutron Star at Heart of Young Supernova Remnant – NASA Science

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the best evidence yet for emission from a neutron star. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, C. Fransson (Stockholm University), M. Matsuura (Cardiff University), M. J. Barlow (University College London), P. J. Kavanagh (Maynooth University), J. Larsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Source link

Stellar Beads on a String – NASA

Stellar Beads on a String – NASA

Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded in the system known as SDSS J1531+3414 (SDSS J1531 for short). As explained in our press release, this mega-explosion billions of years ago may help explain the formation of a striking pattern of star clusters around two massive galaxies, resembling “beads on a string.” SDSS J1531 … Read more

Hubble Views a Massive Star Forming – NASA Science

Hubble Views a Massive Star Forming – NASA Science

At the center of the image, IRAS 16562-3959 likely hosts a massive star – about 30 times the mass of our Sun – that is still in the process of forming. The shadowy clouds appear dark because there is so much light-obscuring dust blocking the near-infrared wavelengths of light Hubble observed. However, near-infrared light does … Read more

NASA Telescopes Find New Clues About Mysterious Deep Space Signals – NASA

NASA Telescopes Find New Clues About Mysterious Deep Space Signals – NASA

Using two of the agency’s X-ray telescopes, researchers were able to zoom in on a dead star’s erratic behavior as it released a bright, brief burst of radio waves. What’s causing mysterious bursts of radio waves from deep space? Astronomers may be a step closer to providing one answer to that question. Two NASA X-ray … Read more

Gamma-ray Bursts: Harvesting Knowledge From the Universe’s Most Powerful Explosions – NASA Science

Gamma-ray Bursts: Harvesting Knowledge From the Universe’s Most Powerful Explosions – NASA Science

Afterglows emit radio, infrared, optical, UV, X-ray, as well as gamma-ray light, which provides more data about the original burst. Afterglows also linger for hours to days (or even years) longer than their initial explosion, creating more opportunities for discovery. Source link

When Dead Stars Collide! – NASA Science

When Dead Stars Collide! – NASA Science

After that initial burst of gamma rays, the debris from the explosion continued to glow, fading as it expanded outward. Our Swift, Hubble, Chandra, and Spitzer telescopes, along with a number of ground-based observatories, were poised to look at this afterglow from the explosion in ultraviolet, optical, X-ray, and infrared light. Such coordination between satellites … Read more

NASA's Roman to Search for Signs of Dark Matter Clumps – NASA

NASA's Roman to Search for Signs of Dark Matter Clumps – NASA

Some of the finest, smallest details in the universe – the gaps between elongated groups of stars – may soon help astronomers reveal dark matter in greater detail than ever before. After NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches, by May 2027, researchers will use its images to explore what exists between looping tendrils of stars that are pulled … Read more