R-process nucleosynthesis. Credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The first stars of the universe were monstrous beasts. Comprised only of hydrogen and helium, they could be 300 times more massive than…
Category: Space
Virtual Observatory Provides First “Look” at the Solar Poles
Scientists are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to view the Sun’s poles — or at least produce an educated guess of what the solar poles might look like, since they’ve…
Hubble sights a galaxy with ‘forbidden’ light
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…
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…
