DETERMINE THE AGE OF A SUPERNOVA REMNANT
SNR 0519 is the remnant of a white dwarf that blew up after exceeding its critical mass limit. There are…
Astrophysics
Is dark matter real? Astronomy’s multi-decade mystery
Modern astronomy is in a bit of turmoil. Astronomers understand how stars form, burn, and die, and they are improving…
THE DOUBLE QUASAR, THE FIRST GRAVITATIONAL LENS TO BE OBSERVED
Looking at this stellar field there doesn’t seem to be anything special, some stars of the Milky Way in the…
Far-infrared detector KID reaches highest possible sensitivity
Astronomy has a blind spot in the area of far-infrared radiation compared to most other wavelengths. A far-infrared space telescope…
Collision between supermassive black holes could occur in 3 years
A galaxy about a billion light-years away could harbor a binary system of supermassive black holes at its core —…
WEBB’S FIRST IMAGE OF A PLANET OUTSIDE OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
Amazing is an understatement! Here it is, the first direct image of an exoplanet (a planet outside our solar system)…
Dark energy remains a mystery as Einstein’s theory of gravity passes another test
Scientists are still coming up empty in the hunt for flaws in Einstein’s theory of general relativity that could explain…
Webb Telescope Has Snapped A Perfect Einstein Ring 12 Billion Light-Years Away
Our feeds have been bombarded with breathtakingly beautiful images of space since the first James Webb Space Telescope images were…
ALMA explores a Cosmic Jellyfish
Using the detailed eyes of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have mapped…
Unveiling NASA’s Artemis Program: The Journey to Moon
NASA’s Artemis 1 mission, scheduled to take off on Monday, is a 42-day voyage beyond the far side of the…