Voyager 2/ISS images of Uranus and Neptune released shortly after the Voyager 2 flybys in 1986 and 1989, respectively, compared with a reprocessing of the individual filter images in this…
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ALMA telescope discovers hidden orbit secrets
The ALMA telescope shows how the gas around the dying star in W Aquilae has been shaped by interactions with a sunlike companion star. Both stars are located in the…
After all of this time searching for aliens, are we stuck with the zoo hypothesis?
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…
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…
