It is believed that it will remain in that orbit until around the year 3700: it could be useful as a stopover on future manned…
Astrophysicists solve a puzzle of massive galaxies
A new theoretical model reveals an excess of massive galaxies, in contrast to previously accepted theories strophysicists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) may…
Webb confirms the faintest galaxy, 13.3 billion light-years away
A projected image of the galaxy JD1 (inset), which lies behind a bright galaxy cluster called Abell2744. – GUIDO ROBERTS-BORSANI/UCLA), NASA, ESA, CSA An international…
The phenomenon that devastates our idea of the expansion of the universe
A team of researchers has used a new technique to measure the rate of expansion of the universe. Their results contradict previous estimates and reopen…
New observations of black hole jets challenge the leading model of particle acceleration
Variations in black hole jets challenge leading theory about their formation. X-ray emissions from black hole jets are a recent finding. In fact, how the…
James Webb Maps ‘Amazingly Large’ Plume From Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
T Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and G. Villanueva (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center). Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI). The James Webb Space Telescope has…
Astronomers discover what may be the last planets observed by NASA’s Kepler mission
Kepler ran out of fuel in 2018 and, in its death throes, managed to find three planets before its total shutdown. Astronomers, with the help…
A third of the most common planets in the galaxy could be in the habitable zone
Our familiar warm yellow sun is relatively rare in the Milky Way. The most common stars are much smaller and cooler, containing only about half…
Astronomers would have discovered the first dark matter star in the Universe
An apparent black hole would actually be a boson star, made up of invisible dark matter In a strange and distant star system, a star…
Hubble telescope explores the aftermath of the catastrophic stellar explosion in NGC 298
The Hubble Space Telescope, in a study to better understand the origins of Type II supernovae, captured this image of the spiral galaxy NGC 298,…