An international astronomer team has found a new and unknown object in the Milky Way that is heavier than the heaviest neutron stars known and simultaneously lighter than the lightest…
Category: Space
The ‘Barbenheimer Star’ – Technology Org
Astronomy’s new blockbuster was announced in New Orleans during the 2024 American Astronomical Society meeting. Astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) discovered evidence for what they call the…
NASA selects a sample return mission to Venus
Graphic depiction of Sample Return from the Surface of Venus. Credit: Geoffrey Landis In Dante Alighieri’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, the famous words “Abandon all hope, ye who enter…
Searching for Dark Matter in Gaps Between Stars
Although dark matter makes up 27% of the universe, astronomers have been unable to observe it directly. Astronomers anticipate upcoming images of the Andromeda galaxy may hold vital clues. The…
Most Early Galaxies Looked Like Breadsticks Rather Than Pizza Pies or Dough Balls
Columbia researchers analyzing images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found that galaxies in the early universe are often flat and elongated, like breadsticks—and are rarely round, like balls…
Webb data suggest many early galaxies were long and thin, not disk-like or spherical
Images of what researchers believe are elongated, ellipsoid (i.e. breadstick-shaped) galaxies, captured with the James Webb Space Telescope. The word “believe” reflects the fact that some of the galaxies may…
Samples from Wild 2 comet reveal a surprising past
The Stardust sample return capsule was transported by helicopter from its landing site at the U.S. Air Force Utah Test and Training Range in January 2006. This image shows the…
Our Surprising Magnetic Galaxy – Technology Org
Milky Way visible in the night sky – illustrative photo. Even though it is difficult to imagine a flat universe, this theory may be right. And, it has nothing to…
Earth-Sized Planet Discovered in ‘Our Solar Backyard’
A team of astronomers have discovered a planet closer and younger than any other Earth-sized world yet identified. It’s a remarkably hot world whose proximity to our own planet and…
Big planets don’t necessarily mean big moons
Artist’s illustration of a large exomoon orbiting a large exoplanet. Credit: NASA/ESA/L. Hustak Does the size of an exomoon help determine if life could form on an exoplanet it’s orbiting?…
