CREDIT: NASA, ESA, CSA, STSCI On July 11, 2022, the very first image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was released to the general public. It’s called Webb’s…
Category: Planetary Science
NASA C-130 makes first-ever flight to Antarctica for GUSTO balloon mission
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility C-130 aircraft delivered the agency’s Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) payload to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, on Oct. 28, 2023. The GUSTO mission will launch on…
NASA X-ray telescopes reveal the ‘bones’ of a ghostly cosmic hand
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./R. Romani et al. (Chandra); NASA/MSFC (IXPE); Infared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DECaPS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt) In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and used them to image the bones in…
Mouse embryos grown in space for first time: Japan researchers
The mice embryos were thawed and grown on the International Space Station. Mouse embryos have been grown on the International Space Station and developed normally in the first study indicating…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
