This handout provided by the European Southern Observatory shows a detailed, thousand-colour image of the Sculptor Galaxy captured with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Credit: ESO…
Category: Planetary Science
Quasi-periodic oscillations detected in X-ray binary SXP31.0
Smoothed dynamic power spectrum (top) and light curve (bottom) of NuObs1 in the 3–79 keV energy band. The light curve is binned with a 100 s time resolution. The dynamic power spectrum…
Peering into a starburst galaxy with JWST
This is the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month. The powerful infrared space telescope captured this image of the Cigar Galaxy (M82) with its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).…
AI-powered ChronoFlow uses stellar rotation rates to estimate stars’ ages
The MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile captured this colorful view of the bright star cluster NGC 3532. Some of the stars still shine with a…
NASA missions help explain and predict severity of solar storms
The strength of the April 2023 geomagnetic storm was a surprise in part because the coronal mass ejection (CME) that produced it followed a relatively weak solar flare, seen as…
Hubble captures an active galactic center
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. J. Koss, A. J. Barth The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of…
Japan launches a climate change monitoring satellite on mainstay H2A rocket’s last flight
An H-2A rocket carrying Global Observing SATellite for Greenhouse gases and Water cycle, or GOSAT-GW satellite, lifts off from a launch pad in Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima, southern Japan,…
A strange bright burst in space baffled astronomers for more than a year. Now, they’ve solved the mystery
The radio burst was captured using the ASKAP radio telescope. Credit: Marcin Glowacki Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we…
Powerful magnets could unlock detection of high-frequency gravitational waves
Magnetic Weber bar concept: Gravitational waves deform the magnet, creating oscillating magnetic fields detected by the pickup loop and SQUID. Credit: Sebastian Ellis New research published in Physical Review Letters…
Hey Siri, fix my spacecraft! A virtual assistant could help astronauts handle unexpected space mission issues
Credit: Rachel Barton/Texas A&M Engineering When astronauts make the long journey to Mars in the not-so-distant future, communication with mission control will be impossible for days to weeks at a…
