astronomy
December 5, 2022 | Reuters
Mysteries of Universe in Focus for South African Mega Telescope
CARNARVON, South Africa—South African officials and scientists on Monday celebrated a milestone towards building the world’s largest radio astronomy instrument, which is co-hosted with Australia and aims to unlock mysteries of the universe. The construction launch outside the remote town of Carnarvon, Northern Cape, marks the next phase of developing a complex instrument aimed at […]
October 23, 2021 | NTD Newsroom
Look Up! How Our Connections to the Stars and Nature Benefit Our Past, Present, and Future
As humans, we’ve always looked up to the stars, to the planets, and wondered what they are, what they mean, and how they affect us. Well, wherever you are in the world, you have the opportunity to look up into the sky, and in the night sky, we can look at the stars. But there […]
October 22, 2021 | Kay Rubacek
Look Up! How Our Connections to the Stars and Nature Benefit Our Past, Present, and Future
With modern technology all around us, we often forget about the cycles of nature and the cosmos that our ancestors always relied on. But our health, knowledge, culture, and future are still impacted by our connection to the sun, moon, planets, and beyond. As humans, we’ve always looked up to the stars, to the planets, […]
July 25, 2021 | Reuters
Moon-Forming Region Seen Around Planet in Another Solar System
Scientists for the first time have spotted a moon-forming region around a planet beyond our solar system—a Jupiter-like world surrounded by a disk of gas and dust massive enough that it could spawn three moons the size of the one orbiting Earth. The researchers used the ALMA observatory in Chile’s Atacama desert to detect the […]
April 6, 2018 | Reuters
Dozens of Black Holes Discovered At The Center of the Milky Way
WASHINGTON—Black holes are hanging out at the center of our galaxy by the thousands, according to scientists who have detected a bunch of them in the neighborhood of a supermassive black hole already known to reside at the heart of the Milky Way. Researchers said data from the NASA’s orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory allowed them […]
April 6, 2017 | Colin Fredericson
Jupiter brilliant and ominous this week
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Jupiter is extra close and extra bright this week, and that means some amazing, new close-ups. The Hubble Space Telescope zoomed in on the solar system giant Monday, and NASA released the pictures Thursday. Jupiter was a relatively close 415 million miles (668 million kilometers) away. The planet’s Great Red […]
March 9, 2017 | NTD Staff
Ancient stardust sheds light on the first stars
The Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array, or ALMA, located high in the northern Chilean desert of Atacama released Wednesday (March 8) colorful images of a huge mass of glowing stardust of a galaxy stretch back from when the Universe was at its inception and only four percent of its present age. This galaxy was observed shortly […]