This is an annotated Hubble Space Telescope image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula, located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus. The object gets its name from its …
On April 24, to celebrate the 34th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s legendary Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers took a snapshot of the Little Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Messier …
Astronomers with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope have detected radiation from a brown dwarf star, suggesting it may produce auroras like those seen near Earth’s poles and …
Researchers may have solved the mystery of why a distant galaxy surrounded by an unusually perfect “Einstein ring” is denser than it should be: The giant galaxy has been discovered …
Space is very psychedelic. There are objects in the universe that are so massive—usually clusters of galaxies—that they warp space like a bowling ball on a mattress. This creates a …
two supernovaes In a galaxy, and so far away that we see it as it did 10 billion years ago, it could be crucial in helping to reveal how fast …
Huge clusters of galaxies distort space-time to the point where they act like lenses. The light from more distant galaxies is distorted and amplified, giving astronomers the chance to see …
The James Webb Space Telescope in outer space. (Image source: Getty Images) December 25th is a very special birthday for many people around the world, but it is also a …
timeThe James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the results of smaller telescopes about the rate of expansion of the universe. Instead of resolving the physics debate, this made things worse, …
Artist’s illustration of extremely high-energy cosmic rays called “Amaterasu particles” observed by the Telescope Array Experiment’s surface detector array. Image source: Osaka Metropolitan University/L-INSIGHT, Kyoto University/Ryuunosuke Takeshige The Telescope Array …