The Karl Jansky Very Large Array at night, with the Milky Way visible in the sky. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF; J. Hellerman In 1950, during a lunchtime conversation with colleagues at the…
Category: Space
Meet the Infrared Telescopes That Paved the Way for NASA’s Webb
The Webb telescope has opened a new window into the universe, but it builds on missions going back 40 years, including Spitzer and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite. Scientists have been…
A New Way to Characterize Habitable Planets
For decades, science fiction authors have imagined scenarios in which life thrives on the harsh surfaces of Mars or our Moon, or in the oceans below the icy surfaces of…
Rare Six-Planet Star System Discovery is Music to Astronomers’ Ears
A rare star system with six exoplanets has been discovered with an architecture unchanged for billions of years. Exoplanet – illustrative photo. Image credit: Pixabay (Free Pixabay license) The star,…
Want to get into stargazing? A professional astronomer explains where to start
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There are few things more peaceful and relaxing than a night under the stars. Through the holidays, many people head away from the bright city lights…
New Project Will Take a Step Towards Answering Whether Gravity is Quantum
Scientists are developing an experiment to test whether gravity is quantum – one of the deepest questions about our universe. Gravity – illustrative photo. Image credit: Pixabay (Free Pixabay license)…
First pulsar detected in globular cluster GLIMPSE-C01
VLITE 340 MHz image of GLIMPSE-C01 from February 27, 2021. Credit: McCarver et al., 2023. Using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have discovered a millisecond pulsar…
A new way to characterize habitable planets
Dramatic plumes spray water ice and vapor from many locations along the famed “tiger stripes” near the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The tiger stripes are four prominent, approximately…
JWST sets a new record, sees newly forming stars in the Triangulum galaxy
Galaxy M33 (Triangulum Galaxy) as seen by Hubble Space Telescope. JWST was used recently to observe sites in its southern arm where newly forming stars (YSOs) appear to lie. Our…
