James Webb Space Telescope Reaches Its Destination in Huge Mission Milestone
The James Webb Space Telescope has fired its thrusters and reached its orbital destination around a million miles (1.5 million…
Astrophysics
The Graviton: The Quantum Particle That Makes the World Round
In the great classroom of physics — otherwise known as the universe — gravity doesn’t work or play well with…
Two Solar Flares Just Erupted on The Sun, Bringing Coronal Mass Ejections
After a series of eruptions on the Sun, Earth may be in for auroras over the next few days. A…
What is a Nuclear star cluster?
Nuclear star cluster (NSC) or compact stellar nucleus is a star cluster with high density and high luminosity near the…
Black hole devoured a star decades ago and it was only discovered now
Traces of a black hole ‘s “meal” were identified in a dataset from the 1980s, thanks to two high school…
Clouds around our local supermassive black hole
This image taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) shows the region surrounding Sagittarius A* , the supermassive black…
A connection between life on Earth and supernovae, mediated by the effect of cosmic rays on clouds and weather
In a new research paper published in the scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters by lead researcher Dr Henrik Svensmark of…
Strange Radio Waves Detected from The Galactic Center
What arises out of nowhere in the sky, emits random radio signals, and then vanishes for months? Astronomers have been…
One of the largest hydrogen filaments ever seen in the Milky Way is discovered
The Milky Way has a large filament of gaseous atomic hydrogen. The structure, nicknamed “Maggie”, is about 55,000 light-years from…
A ghostly jellyfish, raised from the dead
Galaxy clusters are the largest known structures in the universe held together by gravity. In addition to harboring thousands of…