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…
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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…
CSO Telescope Dismantled and Heading to New Mission in Chile
At nearly 14,000 feet, Maunakea is the tallest mountain in Hawaiʻi and the second tallest on any island on Earth. Clouds often settle below the mountain’s barren, dark-brown summit, making…
International astronaut will be invited on future NASA moon landing
Artemis II crew members from left, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and Jeremy Hansen speak to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House…
Supercomputer provides new suite of Lyman-α forest simulations for illustrating large-scale structure of universe
TACC’s Frontera supercomputer helped astronomers develop PRIYA, the largest suite of hydrodynamic simulations yet made of large-scale structures in the universe. Example Lyman-α forest spectra from quasar light and corresponding…
Trying to communicate with whales is like talking to extraterrestrials
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Communicating between species isn’t something that only has to take place between space-faring civilizations. There are plenty of species here on our home planet that communicate…
