HOUSTON — Two former U.S. Navy test pilots, now NASA astronauts, can’t wait to finally get their hands on a new spacecraft. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams told Space.com and…
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Astronomers only knew of a single binary Cepheid system—they just found nine more
This Hubble image shows RS Puppis, a type of variable star known as a Cepheid variable. As variable stars go, Cepheids have comparatively long periods — RS Puppis, for example,…
NASA’s Lucy asteroid-hopping spacecraft pins down ages of 1st asteroid targets
Last November, when NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew past its first official asteroid target named Dinkinesh, it found the space rock was not one, not two but three rocks huddled together.…
Three-year study of young stars with NASA’s Hubble enters new chapter
The ULLYSES program studied two types of young stars: super-hot, massive, blue stars and cooler, redder, less massive stars than our Sun. The top panel is a Hubble Space Telescope…
A flight out of this world
Rovers have roamed its alien terrain, scooping up rock samples and searching for signs of microbial life in basins once awash with water. An illustration of the Mars Aerial Ground…
Research unlocks supernova stardust secrets
Cassiopeia A is a supernova remnant in the constellation Cassiopeia. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO Curtin University-led research has discovered a rare dust particle trapped in an ancient extra-terrestrial meteorite that was formed…
Sleeping supermassive black holes awakened briefly by shredded stars
This image, taken by the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), shows two supermassive black holes, which appear as the blobs with red strips. The black holes are in the center…
‘Mother of Dragons’ Comet Visible in the Night Sky
Comets are ancient cosmic icebergs. They are roughly 4.6 billion years old and formed at the same time as the Sun, Earth and the other planets. Gravitational interactions fling them towards…
Fast Radio Bursts – Technology Org
No one knows what causes them, but they may help us map the universe down to its furthest reaches fast radio bursts. Bright flashes travelling across galaxies, their origins shrouded…
Tiniest ‘starquakes’ ever detected
Artist ‘s impression of sound waves (p modes), with different frequencies, traveling across the inner layers of a star. Credit: Tania Cunha (Planetário do Porto—Centro Ciência Viva)/Instituto de Astrofísica e…
