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The Hubble telescope has shifted into one-gyro mode after months of technical issues − an aerospace...
San Francisco Chronicle· 6 days agoAfter months of technical issues, NASA announced June 4 that Hubble would shift into one-gyroscope mode. This essentially means that the telescope will have to rely on just ...
It’s Twins! Astronomers Discover Parallel Disks and Jets Erupting from a Pair of Young Stars - Good...
GoodNewsNetwork· 5 days agoAstronomers were thrilled when they received the news that they were expecting twins—stars that is,...
Investigating the Origins of the Crab Nebula With NASA’s Webb - NASA Science
NASA· 6 days agoNew data revises our view of this unusual supernova explosion. A team of scientists used NASA’s ...
This long-studied star is actually a stellar duo: 'We were absolutely stunned'
SPACE.com· 6 days agoFor decades, telescope observations showed the WL 20 group, which lies within a massive molecular...
Webb observations hint at giant asteroid collision in a nearby planetary system
CNN.com· 7 days ago“The James Webb Telescope: Are We Alone?” on The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper offers an inside...
Unexpected Find: Webb Discovers Mystery Sulfur on Distant Planet
SciTechDaily· 6 days agoGJ 3470 b is a gas dwarf with unexpected sulfur dioxide in its atmosphere. This discovery provides...
Astronomers Discover Long-Studied Star Is Actually Two Stars
ExtremeTech· 5 days agoAstronomers thought they had a good handle on a star called WL20, which sits some 400 light-years away in the Rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud complex. Then, NASA and the National Radio Astronomy ...
Eccentric Oddities: Surprise Discovery of Mysterious Mini-Neptune Exoplanets
SciTechDaily· 5 days agoResearchers discovered four mini-Neptunes with volatile-rich compositions around red dwarfs, using...
Black holes formed quasars less than a billion years after Big Bang
Ars Technica· 6 days agoThe seeming impossibility of supermassive black holes in the early Universe was already a bit of a...
Hubble Back In Business, Wows With New Galaxy Image
Forbes· 2 days agoBehold galaxy NGC 1546. Its glowing center and ethereal lanes of dust are highlights of a new Hubble Space Telescope image released by NASA on June 18. It’s more than a pretty ...