After completing final integration, Ball Aerospace technicians transport the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Wide Field Instrument (WFI) into Ball’s largest thermal vacuum chamber to begin environmental testing at a…
Category: Planetary Science
Motion of stars near Milky Way’s central black hole is only predictable for a few hundred years
Simulation of the motions of stars around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. On the left are shown the orbits of the stars. These orbits have…
Billion-light-year-wide ‘bubble of galaxies’ discovered
An artist’s representation of the ‘bubble of galaxies’ Ho’oleilana, which spans a billion light years. Astronomers have discovered the first “bubble of galaxies,” an almost unimaginably huge cosmic structure thought…
XRISM satellite launches to study the universe in different colors of X-rays
An artist’s rendering of XRISM, a satellite that will take groundbreaking new readings of hot and energetic places in the universe. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab…
Virgin Galactic notches fourth spaceflight in four months
The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo space plane Unity and mothership separate as they fly way above Spaceport America, near Truth and Consequences, New Mexico in July 2021. Virgin Galactic on Friday…
Scientists study distributed satellite cluster laser networking algorithm with double-layer Markov DRL architecture
Topology diagram of the DSC network. Credit: Space: Science & Technology In a research paper recently published in Space: Science & Technology, scholars from School of systems science and engineering,…
Hubble dispels dust to see glittering globular cluster Terzan 12
Glittering globular cluster Terzan 12. Credit: NASA The glittering globular cluster Terzan 12—a vast, tightly bound collection of stars—fills the frame of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.…
Across the Northern Hemisphere, now’s the time to catch a new comet before it vanishes for 400 years
This image provided by Gianluca Masi shows the comet C/2023 P1 Nishimura and its tail seen from Manciano, Italy on Sept. 5, 2023. Stargazers across the Northern Hemisphere should catch…
Vast bubble of galaxies discovered, given Hawaiian name
The red region (left) shows the shell enclosed by the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation, with individual galaxies depicted as luminous tiny specks. The blue filaments show the greater Cosmic Web, with…
