WASHINGTON—The James Webb Space Telescope since becoming operational in 2022 has uncovered numerous surprises about what things were like in the universe’s early stages. We now can add one more—observations of a galaxy that was already “dead” when the universe was only 5 percent of its current age. Scientists said on Wednesday that Webb has […]
WASHINGTON—About two billion years ago in a galaxy far beyond our Milky Way, a big star met its demise in a massive explosion called a supernova that unleashed a huge burst of gamma rays, which pack the most energy of any wave in the electromagnetic spectrum. Those waves traversed the cosmos and finally reached Earth […]
The Milky Way galaxy has a graveyard of dead stars that stretches three times the height of the galaxy, according to new research. Astronomers found the ancient stellar remnants when they mapped this “galactic underworld” for the first time. Our galaxy, which formed about 13 billion years ago, has been the home of billions of […]
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A newly released image from the Webb space telescope shows the cartwheel galaxy, a rare ring galaxy located 500 million light years away. Scientists have been able to glean new insights and information about the galaxy’s makeup and its evolution.
WASHINGTON—Residing at the center of our spiral-shaped Milky Way galaxy is a beast—a supermassive black hole possessing 4 million times the mass of our sun and consuming any material including gas, dust, and stars straying within its immense gravitational pull. Scientists have been using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global network of observatories working […]
A rare star system has been found in our Milky Way galaxy, but it’s doomed to end in a massive explosion. The star system, which looks like a cosmic pinwheel, is located 8,000 light-years from Earth. But it’s so rare that astronomers never expected to find a star system like this in our galaxy. It’s […]
Astronomers have spotted a massive disk galaxy, not unlike our own, that formed 12.5 billion years ago when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was only a tenth of its current age. But according to what scientists know about galaxy formation, this one has no business being in the distant universe. This discovery is challenging how astronomers […]
NASA’s Hubble Telescope has captured some of the universe’s brightest infrared galaxies on camera, thanks to some closer galaxies that act like magnifying glasses. These luminous galaxies are up to 10,000 times brighter than our Milky Way galaxy, and we are able to see them because of a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. Galaxies or clusters […]
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 […]
The European Southern Observatory (ESO)’s Very Large Telescope in northern Chile on Thursday (March 2) released colorful new images of the spiral galaxy NGC 1055, an older sister of our Milky Way that is about 55 million light years from Earth and is located in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). The snapshots, taken […]
Getting kids to sleep all by themselves, in their own separate rooms, is indeed challenging for parents! But some parents do it fantastically differently, packing fun along with sound-sleep for their little ones. Read on how one such couple, on seeing their child’s difficulty, requested their artist friend to help them out … Perhaps you too might like […]
