NGC 1333 is an extremely active star-forming region. This Hubble image shows how dust obscures most of the star formation. Radio telescopes have found iCOMs around young protostars in this…
Category: Space
Giant Doubts About Giant Exomoons
Discovery of giant exomoons around the planets Kepler-1625b and Kepler-1708b called into question. Just as it can be assumed that the stars in our Milky Way are orbited by planets,…
Astronomy toolkit allows users to create their own sky map, find the weirdest stars and explore the surface of the moon
The EXPLORE lunar tools include a ‘pedestrian view’ for visualising the exploration of the lunar surface. Credit: EXPLORE Consortium / TerriaJS / Smithsonian / NASA / GSFC / ASU /…
Next-gen Gravitational Wave Detectors Will Provide “Remarkable Scientific Payoff”
Next-generation gravitational wave detectors capable of revealing processes from the creation of our Universe obtainable by no other means are being developed by UK astronomers. Artist impression of the Cosmic…
Interpreting the Afterglow of a Black Hole’s Breakfast
An entirely new way to probe how active black holes behave when they eat has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. ALMA, located in the Chilean Atacama desert,…
NASA’s Perseverance rover deciphers ancient history of Martian lake
This 360-degree mosaic from the “Airey Hill” location inside Jezero Crater was generated using 993 individual images taken by the Perseverance Mars rover’s Mastcam-Z from Nov. 3-6. The rover remained…
Tracking Undetectable Space Junk – Technology Org
Colliding pieces of space debris emit electric signals that could help track small debris littering Earth’s orbit, potentially saving satellites and spacecraft. Satellite and spacecraft operators may finally be able…
Downloading NASA’s Dark Matter Data from Above the Clouds
Data from a NASA mission to map dark matter around galaxy clusters has been saved by a new recovery system designed by scientists at the University of Sydney. The system…
The longstanding mystery of Mars’ moons—and the mission that could solve it
Credit: NASA The two small moons of Mars, Phobos (about 22km in diameter) and Deimos (about 13km in diameter), have been puzzling scientists for decades, with their origin remaining a…
