NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has been tucked inside a custom-built chamber on and off for the past two months undergoing tests to prepare it for its two-year mission in space. …
Category: Astronomy
Webb Snaps Supersonic Outflow of Young Star
This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope image features Herbig-Haro 211 (HH 211), a bipolar jet traveling through interstellar space at supersonic speeds. At roughly 1000 light-years from Earth in…
What Can NASA Glean From Historic Bennu Asteroid Sample?
The conclusion of a 4 billion-mile journey to visit the asteroid Bennu could soon offer a glimpse at the Earth as it was more than 4 billion years ago. Asteroid…
‘Bubble’ of Galaxies: Revolution of Cosmology
An international team of astronomers has discovered a giant ‘bubble’ of galaxies, measuring one billion light-years across, in the nearby universe. Team member Dr Cullan Howlett from The University of…
Recipes for Origin of Life Point to Distant, Inhabited Planets
Life on a faraway planet — if it’s out there — might not look anything like life on Earth. But there are only so many chemical ingredients in the universe’s…
Virtual Solar System Transforms Learners Into Astronauts
A new method of exploration Instead of using virtual reality headsets, this experience utilizes handheld tablets that serve as windows into the virtual space. “When you’re wearing virtual reality goggles,…
Sentinel-1 Reveals Shifts From Morocco Earthquake
Following the devastating earthquake that struck Morocco on 8 September, satellite data have been made available through the International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters’ to help emergency response teams on…
Solar Orbiter closes in on the solution to a 65-year-old solar mystery
The Sun’s atmosphere is called the corona. It consists of an electrically charged gas known as plasma with a temperature of around one million degrees Celsius. Its temperature is an…
Solar Orbiter: Solution to a 65-Year-Old Solar Mystery
The Sun’s atmosphere is called the corona. It consists of an electrically charged gas known as plasma with a temperature of around one million degrees Celsius. Its temperature is an…
Webb Confirms Accuracy of Universe’s Expansion Rate Measured by Hubble, Deepens Mystery of Hubble Constant Tension
The rate at which the universe is expanding, known as the Hubble constant, is one of the fundamental parameters for understanding the evolution and ultimate fate of the cosmos. However,…
