The first ever image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole that sit at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. The supermassive black hole lurking at the center of…
Category: Space
Exoplanet Secrets About the Edge of Habitability
How close can a rocky exoplanet be to a star and still sustain water and life? Artist impression showing the exoplanet LP 890-9c’s potential evolution from a hot Earth to…
SpaceX tender offer values it at around $150bn: report
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Elon Musk’s company SpaceX is offering to sell insider shares at a price that lifts its valuation to around $150 billion, according to a Bloomberg News…
Hubble glimpses globular cluster NGC 6544
Credit: NASA The teeming stars of the globular cluster NGC 6544 glisten in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This cluster of tightly bound stars lies more than…
New gravitational waves observation run to reveal more of the universe’s secrets
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new observation run to search for ripples in space-time generated by colliding black holes and other extreme cosmic events will take gravitational wave astronomy to…
Astronomers discover new mini-Neptune exoplanet
The phase-folded and binned transit light curve of TOI-2018 b. Credit: Dai et al, 2023 An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new mini-Neptune exoplanet orbiting a…
Europe’s Euclid space telescope to launch on July 1
The ESA’s Euclid mission will chart a 3D map of the universe encompassing more than a third of the sky. The European Space Agency said on Wednesday its space telescope…
Exploring Stephan’s Quintet with multiple senses
Take a multiwavelength tour of Stephan’s Quintet, learning how we study the same object with different wavelengths of light. When combined, telescopes’ observations can provide different information and clues about…
Phosphate, Key Building Block of Life, Found on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
An international team including a University of Washington scientist has found that the water on one of Saturn’s moons harbors phosphates, a key building block of life. The team led…
We could see the glint off giant cities on alien worlds, suggests paper
An example of specular reflection glinting off the ‘Heart of the City’ water feature in Sheffield. Credit: Steve F., Wikimedia Commons How large would an extraterrestrial city have to be…
