Psyche’s solar arrays convert light into electricity, providing the power for its four solar electric or “Hall-effect” thrusters. For the first time ever, a NASA probe is set to journey…
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‘A new lens’ into the universe’s most energetic particles
An example of a cosmic-ray extensive air shower recorded by the Subaru Telescope. The highlighted tracks, which are mostly aligned in similar directions, show the shower particles induced from a…
“Starquakes” Could Explain Mystery Signals
Receiver of the Arecibo Telescope, Puerto Rico. FRB data was provided by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in China and the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico, two of the…
Quenched galaxies in the early universe
Color composite JWST NIRCam image of distant galaxy JADES-GS-z13-0 Recently, much attention has been given to massive, active galaxies discovered by the JWST in the early universe. But in contrast…
Dazzling – and Fortunate – Story of Gold
New research offers a theory on how gold, platinum, and other precious metals found their way to shallow pockets within Earth’s mantle. Artistic rendering of a large collision on the…
5 things to know about NASA’s deep space optical communications
NASA’s DSOC is composed of a flight laser transceiver attached to Psyche and a ground system that will send and receive laser signals. Clockwise from top left: the Psyche spacecraft…
A ‘ring of fire’ eclipse is coming. Here’s how to watch
Students gather to watch a solar eclipse from the CU Boulder campus in 2017. Credit: Glenn Asakawa/CU Boulder At about 10:30 a.m. Mountain Time on Saturday, Oct. 14, the moon…
Bursts of Star Formation Explain Mysterious Brightness at Cosmic Dawn
Intense flashes of light, not mass, during star formation, resolve the puzzle of impossible brightness. When scientists viewed the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images of the universe’s earliest…
Inside the long battle to maintain the spot where we found our place in the universe
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Los Angeles was once the best place in the world to see the universe. The most important things we know about the cosmos were discovered in…
How New Satellite Type Will Impact Earth Astronomy
A team of scientists has been tracking a bright object in the sky. But it’s not a star. It’s a new type of commercial satellite. Astronomers are trying to understand…
