The largest storm in the solar system, a 10,000-mile-wide anticyclone called the Great Red Spot, has decorated Jupiter’s surface for hundreds of years. A huge storm dominates the rather featureless…
Category: Astronomy
Celestron EclipSmart 12x50mm porro solar binoculars review
With two solar eclipses coming up in North America everyone’s focusing on getting the best view, but do you need the kind of magnification offered by the Celestron EclipSmart 12x50mm…
Planetary Defense Test Deflected Asteroid but Unleashed Boulder Swarm
NASA’s DART mission crashed a spacecraft into the nearby asteroid Dimorphos to test a possible strategy for deflecting asteroids that are headed for Earth. The test succeeded in knocking Dimorphos…
Artificial Intelligence Will Search for Habitable Planets
University of Sydney partners with Spiral Blue for the TOLIMAN space telescope mission to look for habitable planets using artificial intelligence. Backed by the Breakthrough Initiatives, Professor Peter Tuthill will…
Watch Exoplanet’s 17-Year Journey Around its Star
Longest time-lapse footage of an exoplanet to date was assembled from real data. A Northwestern University astrophysicist has created the longest time-lapse video of an exoplanet to date. Constructed from…
‘Cosmic Lens’ Reveals Distant Galaxies With Dark Matter
A new image taken with the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a variety of unusual, distorted galaxies in the distant universe, magnified by a “gravitational lens” – a massive galaxy…
Intuitive Machines sets Nov. 15 launch date for moon lander
A new private moon-landing mission could launch as soon as November. Intuitive Machines says its moon lander could be ready for liftoff as soon as Nov. 15, pending last-minute preparation. This…
Could The Universe be Twice as Old as Current Estimates Suggest?
How do we know how old the universe actually is? Balasubramanian: The universe is often reported to be 13.8 billion years old, but, truth be told, this is an amalgamation…
Observing Structures in a Dying Star
New images of a dying star at the centre of a well-known planetary nebula 2,600 light years from Earth have revealed structures that no previous telescope could detect, according to…
Gravitational Arcs in ‘El Gordo’ Galaxy Cluster Spotted
The infrared image, taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, displays a variety of unusual, distorted background galaxies that were only hinted at in previous Hubble Space Telescope images. Webb’s infrared…
