A color composite image of MACS0416 using the data from four sets of images taken by JWST of the galaxy cluster over a period of 126 days, or about four…
Category: Planetary Science
SpaceX hopes for second Starship flight test next week
The SpaceX Starship lifts off from the launchpad during a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 20, 2023. SpaceX is hoping to re-launch Starship, the most…
First release of images demonstrates Euclid space telescope’s potential
Euclid’s strength lies in its diversity: this small section of Euclid’s large image plane shows a detail of the Perseus galaxy cluster. Clearly recognizable are both the various types and…
NASA’s Mars fleet will still conduct science while lying low
NASA’s Perseverance rover captured this view of the location where it will be parked for several weeks during Mars solar conjunction, a period when engineers stop sending commands to spacecraft…
Construction on NASA mission to map 450 million galaxies is under way
Sara Susca, deputy payload manager and payload systems engineer for NASA’s SPHEREx mission, looks up at one of the spacecraft’s photon shields. These concentric cones protect the telescope from light…
Astronomers are hoping to detect gravitational waves coming from supernova 1987A
Hubble Space Telescope image of SN1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: NASA A supernova explosion is a cataclysmic explosion that marks the violent end of a massive star’s life.…
Civilizations could use gravitational lenses to transmit power from star to star
Gravitational lens GAL-CLUS-022058s. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Space Telescope In 1916, famed theoretical physicist Albert Einstein put the finishing touches on his theory of general relativity, a geometric theory for how gravity…
