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…
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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,…
NASA’s SpaceX CRS-29 Flies Research to Space Station
The 29th SpaceX commercial resupply services (CRS) mission for NASA carries scientific experiments and technology demonstrations, including studies of enhanced optical communications and measurement of atmospheric waves. The uncrewed SpaceX…
How NASA Is protecting Europa Clipper from space radiation
Engineers and technicians are seen closing the vault of NASA’s Europa Clipper in the main clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at JPL on Oct. 7. The vault will…
Microsecond Burst Hiding in Telescope Archives
An international team of researchers led by Dutch Ph.D. candidate Mark Snelders (ASTRON and University of Amsterdam) has sifted through telescope archives and discovered radio pulses from the distant universe…
Astronomers carry out largest ever cosmological computer simulation
The background image shows the present-day distribution of matter in a slice through the largest FLAMINGO simulation, which is a cubic volume of 2.8 Gpc (9.1 billion light years) on…
Commercial Space: NASA Has an App for That
Software two decades in the making helps private space companies providing commercial space services save time, money. Parker Solar Probe is providing scientists with new information about the Sun, thanks…
Astronomers spot most distant radio burst yet
How much does the universe weigh? Astronomers hope fast radio bursts, arriving from distant galaxies, could provide an answer. Eight billion years ago, something happened in a distant galaxy that…
