NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope can resolve individual stars in the densely-packed cores of globular clusters like NGC 2210. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini This striking Hubble Space Telescope image…
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Asteroid will pass in front of bright star Betelgeuse to produce a rare eclipse visible to millions
This image made with the Hubble Space Telescope and released by NASA on Aug. 10, 2020 shows the star Alpha Orionis, or Betelgeuse, a red supergiant. The star, one of…
Scholars say it’s time to declare a new epoch on the moon, the ‘Lunar Anthropocene’
a) Crater formed by impact of USA’s Ranger 6 lunar probe in 1964 (b) USA’s Apollo 13 Saturn IVB upper stage impact site from 1970; (c) Israel’s Beresheet Moon lander…
China scores a big win in race with US for influence on the moon
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain China notched a diplomatic victory in its race against the U.S. for influence in space, with Egypt agreeing to support Beijing’s plan for a proposed project…
Iran says it sent a capsule with animals into orbit as it prepares for human missions
This photo released by the Iranian Defense Ministry on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, claims to show a rocket with a capsule carrying animals is launched from an undisclosed location into…
Deep learning could help identify Jezero Crater landing site
With deep learning methods, scientists generated the 50-centimeter-per-pixel HiRISE MADNet digital terrain model mosaic shaded relief (center). The fine-scale surface features of Mars stand out more clearly compared with prior…
A six-planet solar system in perfect synchrony has been found in the Milky Way
This image provided by NASA shows an artist’s illustration of the Tess telescope. Astronomers have discovered six planets orbiting a bright nearby star in perfect rhythmic harmony. They say it’s…
A new possible explanation for the Hubble tension
The image shows the distribution of matter in space – (blue; the yellow dots represent individual galaxies). The Milky Way (green) lies in an area with little matter. The galaxies…
