The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on weird and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that orbits on its side. Webb found a dynamic world with rings,…
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Innovative X-ray Lobster-Eye Mission Set to Launch
In return for contributing to the development of this mission and the definition of its scientific goals, ESA will get access to 10% of the data generated by Einstein Probe’s…
Why the universe might be a hologram
The colored circle represents the hologram, out of which the knotted optical vortex emerges. Credit: University of Bristol A quarter century ago, physicist Juan Maldacena proposed the AdS/CFT correspondence, an…
NASA’s Fermi Mission Creates 14-Year Time-Lapse of the Gamma-Ray Sky
The cosmos comes alive in an all-sky time-lapse movie made from 14 years of data acquired by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Our Sun, occasionally flaring into prominence, serenely traces a…
Ancient stars could make elements with more than 260 protons
R-process nucleosynthesis. Credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The first stars of the universe were monstrous beasts. Comprised only of hydrogen and helium, they could be 300 times more massive than…
Virtual Observatory Provides First “Look” at the Solar Poles
Scientists are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to view the Sun’s poles — or at least produce an educated guess of what the solar poles might look like, since they’ve…
Hubble sights a galaxy with ‘forbidden’ light
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG-01-24-014, which is located about 275 million light-years from Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick This…
Researchers study a million galaxies to find out how the universe began
by Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo Figure 1: An image obtained from observations of large-scale structure of the universe. The numerous…
History of universe can be determined using radio telescopes on the moon
A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) has predicted for the first time the groundbreaking results that can be obtained from a lunar-based detection of radio waves. The study’s findings show…
NASA astronauts test SpaceX elevator concept for Artemis lunar lander
Credit: SpaceX NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Doug “Wheels” Wheelock participated in a recent test of a sub-scale mockup elevator for SpaceX’s Starship human landing system that will be used…
