In this image from video provided by SpaceX, a Dragon capsule carrying four space tourists prepares to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Friday,…
Category: Space
A chance alignment in Lupus
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. NGC 5530 is situated 40…
JWST finds spiral galaxy about 5 times more massive than Milky Way — scientists call it ‘Big Wheel’
A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, which gave birth to the…
Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon
Scientists are now hoping that the asteroid will smash into the Moon. A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4% chance of smashing…
Dark energy may not be constant—this discovery could undermine our entire model of cosmological history
by Bernard J.T. Jones, Licia Verde, Vicent J. Martínez and Virginia L Trimble, The Conversation The Cosmic Inventory: the different components of the universe derived from the Planck Satellite observations…
What’s the difference between a young exoplanet and an old one?
As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new study suggests comparing populations of young exoplanets with older ones could reveal vital clues about how…
Ultralight dark matter could explain early black hole formation
This is an artist’s illustration of a supermassive black hole that is inside the dust-shrouded core of a vigorously star-forming “starburst” galaxy. It will eventually become an extremely bright quasar…
Plush polar bear with penguin art floats as Fram2 zero-g indicator in polar orbit
The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit around Earth chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator — a plush white *polar* bear. But given that the…
KiDS dataset doesn’t shake up cold dark matter model after all, say researchers
The OmegaCAM camera lies at the heart of the VST. It is built around 32 CCD detectors that together create 268-megapixel images. The camera contains extra CCDs to control the…
