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How can the visible universe be 46 billion light-years in radius when the universe is only 13.8...
Astronomy Magazine· 2 days agoAstronomers widely accept that the universe formed in the Big Bang approximately 13.8 billion years...
NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope captures closest super star cluster to Earth (image)
Space via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoIf that age doesn't seem particularly young to you...has a mass equivalent to as many as 100,000...
Scientists Found Carbon in an Ancient Place Where It Was Never Supposed to Be
Popular Mechanics via AOL· 1 day agoJWST’s Near Infrared Spectrograph, or NIRSpec, allows the groundbreaking space telescope to analyze ...
The storied Hubble telescope has gone into ‘safe mode.’ Here’s NASA’s plan to keep it alive | CNN
CNN.com· 7 days agoThe Hubble Space Telescope will transition to a new way of operating that aims to prevent the space...
Hubble Telescope maps high-speed 'burps' from nearby feeding supermassive black hole for 1st time
SPACE.com· 1 day agoWhile supermassive black holes with masses millions or billions of times that of the sun are thought...
Mysterious Origins: Polarized Light Transforms Our Understanding of Fast Radio Bursts
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoA study analyzing the properties of polarized light from 128 non-repeating FRBs reveals mysterious...
'Once-in-a-lifetime' nova explosion will bring new star to night sky, NASA says
ABC7 News· 2 days agoThe expected brightening event, known as a nova, will occur in the Milky Way's Corona Borealis, or...
JWST Detects the Earliest, Most Distant Galaxy in the Known Universe—And It’s Super Weird
Scientific American· 1 day agoKevin Hainline can time travel from his desk. This places it well within a mysterious epoch called ...
100 years ago, our understanding of the universe exploded
The Conversation· 2 days agoIn 1838, a nearby star appeared to wobble because our viewpoint on Earth was moving due to our planet being in orbit around the sun. Recent space missions allow us to see ...
Galactic bloodlines: Many nearby star clusters originate from only three 'families'
Science Daily· 4 days agoUsing precise data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia mission and spectroscopic observations, the team traced the origins of ...