Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./R. Romani et al. (Chandra); NASA/MSFC (IXPE); Infared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DECaPS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt) In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and used them to image the bones in…
Category: Space
Device for Analyzing Deep Space Could Detect Tumors, Air Particles
An improved version of a device that enables scientists to study the hot matter in remnants of exploded stars in deep space and distant galaxy clusters is now available for…
Mystery of the Martian core solved
Mars’s liquid iron core is smaller and denser than previously thought. Not only is it smaller, but it is also surrounded by a layer of molten rock. This is what…
Mouse embryos grown in space for first time: Japan researchers
The mice embryos were thawed and grown on the International Space Station. Mouse embryos have been grown on the International Space Station and developed normally in the first study indicating…
Gearing up for EarthCARE – Technology Org
ESA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency are gearing up for a momentous milestone in Earth observation as the launch of the EarthCARE satellite approaches. Following years of rigorous development…
IXPE Untangles Theories Surrounding Historic Supernova Remnant
NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) telescope has captured the first polarized X-ray imagery of the supernova remnant SN 1006. The new results expand scientists’ understanding of the relationship between…
Webb’s First Detection of Heavy Element from Star Merger
A team of scientists has used multiple space and ground-based telescopes, including NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, and NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, to observe…
Hubble captures galaxy pair Arp-Madore 2339-661
Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Acknowledgement: L. Shatz This striking image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the interacting galaxy pair known as Arp-Madore 2339-661.…
NASA rocket to see sizzling edge of star-forming supernova
This image shows an illustration of the constellation Cygnus, Latin for “swan,” in the night sky. The Cygnus Loop supernova remnant, also known as the Veil Nebula, is located near…
Chaotic jumble of merging spiral galaxies hints at possible fate of Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies
Gemini South, one half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, captures the billion-year-old aftermath of a double spiral galaxy collision. At the heart of this chaotic interaction,…
