This Hubble image shows irregular galaxy ESO 245-5 located some of 15 million light-years from Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Messa This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a…
Category: Space
NASA Sets Coverage for Axiom Mission 3 Departure from Space Station
Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated on Feb. 7, 2024, to reflect the current undocking and splashdown times and NASA TV coverage for the Axiom Mission 3. Editor’s Note: As…
Telescopes show the Milky Way’s black hole is ready for a kick
This artist’s illustration depicts the findings of a new study about the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy called Sagittarius A* (abbreviated as Sgr A*). As reported…
Starving Mass Monster – Technology Org
With the upgraded GRAVITY instrument at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer of the European Southern Observatory, a team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics has…
NASA’s Roman telescope to use rare events to calculate expansion rate of universe
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the powerful gravity of a galaxy embedded in a massive cluster of galaxies, producing multiple images of a single distant supernova far behind it.…
Newly discovered carbon monoxide-runaway gap can help identify habitable exoplanets
The presence of a CO runaway gap can help in the identification of Earth-like planets. Credit: Tokyo Tech The search for habitable exoplanets involves looking for planets with similar conditions…
What is dark energy? Inside our accelerating, expanding universe
The history of the universe is outlined in this infographic. Credit: NASA Some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe began with a rapid expansion we call the Big Bang. After…
NASA to Study Effects of Radio Noise on Lunar Science
In February 2024, Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission will launch to the Moon’s South Polar region, as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, initiative. This mission is part of…
Asteroid that impacted near Berlin identified as a rare aubrite
Aubrite meteorite from asteroid 2024 BX1, photographed at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin by Laura Kranich, a Freie Universität MSc student and member of the Arbeitskreis Meteore, who participated in…
