An international team of astrophysicists, including Princeton’s Andy Goulding has discovered the most distant supermassive black hole ever found, using two NASA space telescopes: the Chandra X-ray Observatory (Chandra) and the James…
Category: Astronomy
Scientists Find 14 New Transient Objects in Space by Peering Through a Galaxy “magnifying glass”
MU researcher Haojing Yan and a team of scientists make the discovery by studying the “Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster” using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. An international team of scientists,…
World-First Zero Space Debris Charter Goes Live
More satellites were launched in the last few years than the entire six decades of space exploration. 130 million pieces of space debris larger than a millimetre orbit Earth, threatening…
First Images from Euclid – Journey Into Cosmic Web Begins
The Euclid mission is the first to deliver images from nearby regions of the Universe. The spacecraft can record the data from an area of the sky more than one…
NASA’s ‘Occult’ Science For Weather Forecasters
Radio occultation, pioneered by NASA for other planets, offers cheaper, better Earth weather data. Spire Global currently has the most radio occultation satellites in orbit, having outfitted 40 of its…
Record-Breaking Black Hole Discovered by NASA Telescopes
Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole yet seen in X-rays, using NASA telescopes. The black hole is at an early stage of growth that had never been witnessed…
The Oldest Known X-ray Quasar Identified
Yale’s Priyamvada Natarajan and colleagues have identified the oldest known X-ray quasar — offering compelling proof of a concept Natarajan helped pioneer. Astronomers have found the oldest-known X-ray quasar in…
Space Program Pumps Up Turbomachinery
These turbopumps are used in the NewtonThree engine from the first stage of Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket. Produced by Barber-Nichols and similar in design and principle to pumps originally made…
Black Holes Feed Faster Than Expected
A Northwestern University-led study supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation is changing the way astrophysicists understand the feeding habits of supermassive black holes. Black holes eat faster than previously expected New finding might…
Remains of Ancient Planet Lie Deep Within Earth
In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery related to a hypothetical ancient planet: two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the Earth, one…
