Illustration of a quark core in a neutron star. Credit: Jyrki Hokkanen, CSC – IT Center for Science Atoms are made of three things: protons, neutrons, and electrons. Electrons are…
Category: Planetary Science
Rocket carrying American lunar lander rolls to launchpad
This image released by NASA shows Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander being encapsulated in the payload fairing, or nose cone, of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. Final preparations were underway Friday…
New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like
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…
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…
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…
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…
A new way to characterize habitable planets
Dramatic plumes spray water ice and vapor from many locations along the famed “tiger stripes” near the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The tiger stripes are four prominent, approximately…
JWST sets a new record, sees newly forming stars in the Triangulum galaxy
Galaxy M33 (Triangulum Galaxy) as seen by Hubble Space Telescope. JWST was used recently to observe sites in its southern arm where newly forming stars (YSOs) appear to lie. Our…
