A new catalog produced by a French-led international team of astronomers shows that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 294 gamma-ray-emitting pulsars, while another 34 suspects await confirmation. This is 27…
Category: Astronomy
Telescope Detects Second Highest-Energy Cosmic Ray Ever
In 1991, the University of Utah Fly’s Eye experiment detected the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed. Later dubbed the Oh-My-God particle, the cosmic ray’s energy shocked astrophysicists. Nothing in our…
The Moon is 40M Years Older Than Previously Thought
Researchers recalculated the age of the Earth’s moon by analyzing tiny lunar zircon crystals gathered by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972. Although previous assessments estimated the moon to be over…
Australian Scientists Detect Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Ever Discovered
In a tiny fraction of a second the radio burst released the equivalent of our Sun’s total emission over 30 years. A new generation of radio telescopes will allow us…
Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of the Milky Way
The latest image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense centre of our galaxy in unprecedented detail, including never-before-seen features astronomers have yet to…
Milky Way-like Galaxy Found in the Early Universe
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team, including astronomer Alexander de la Vega of the University of California, Riverside, has discovered the most distant barred spiral galaxy similar…
New Tools Will Help Study Quantum Chemistry Aboard the International Space Station
At NASA’s Cold Atom Lab facility aboard the International Space Station, an international team of scientists produced a quantum gas containing two types of atoms for the first time in…
Black Holes Could Come in ‘Perfect Pairs’ in an Ever Expanding Universe
Researchers from the University of Southampton, together with colleagues from the universities of Cambridge and Barcelona, have shown it’s theoretically possible for black holes to exist in perfectly balanced pairs…
Galactic ‘Lightsabers’: Answering Longstanding Questions About Jets from Black Holes
The one thing everyone knows about black holes is that absolutely everything nearby gets sucked into them. Almost everything, it turns out. “Even though black holes are defined as objects from which…
How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Chronicle the Active Cosmos
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will pair space-based observations with a broad field of view to unveil the dynamic cosmos in ways that have never been possible. “Roman will…
