• New Telescopes to Study the Aftermath of the Big Bang

    Updated: 2023-10-31 18:25:06
    The NSF just awarded researchers at UChicago to start developing the CMB-S4 experiment, which will map the earliest moments of the Universe! The post New Telescopes to Study the Aftermath of the Big Bang appeared first on Universe Today.

  • The Crab Reveals Its Secrets To JWST

    Updated: 2023-10-30 23:18:17
    Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in The Crab Nebula by JWST . Credit : NASA ESA JWST Posted on October 30, 2023 October 30, 2023 by Mark Thompson The Crab Reveals Its Secrets To JWST The Crab Nebula otherwise known as the first object on Charles Messier†s list of non-cometary objects or M1 for short has never really failed to visually underwhelm me I have spent countless hours hunting down this example of a supernova remnant and found myself wondering why I have bothered . Yet here I am , after decades of looking at it , and I still find it one of the most intriguing objects in the sky . Never has this interest been piqued more than right now after another mirror-smashing beauty of an image from the James

  • JWST Searches for Planets in the Fomalhaut System

    Updated: 2023-10-30 19:56:59
    Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in This image shows Fomalhaut , the star around which the newly discovered planet orbits . Fomalhaut is much hotter than our Sun , 15 times as bright , and lies 25 light-years from Earth . It is blazing through hydrogen at such a furious rate that it will burn out in only one billion years , 10 the lifespan of our star . The field of view is 2.7 x 2.9 . degrees Posted on October 30, 2023 October 30, 2023 by Evan Gough JWST Searches for Planets in the Fomalhaut System The Fomalhaut system is nearby in astronomical terms , and it’s also one of the brightest stars in the night sky . That means astronomers have studied it intensely over the years . Now that we have the powerful

  • Want to Find Life? Compare a Planet to its Neighbors

    Updated: 2023-10-30 16:48:25
    Astrobiologists have difficulty finding a single chemical that proves conclusive life on an exoplanet. A new paper suggests that studying a planet's atmosphere in context with its neighbors might be the way. You could measure carbon compared to other planets in the same system. A low amount of carbon could indicate oceans, plate tectonics, or life itself. The good news is that JWST is sensitive enough to make the observations in the TRAPPIST-1 system. The post Want to Find Life? Compare a Planet to its Neighbors appeared first on Universe Today.

  • Why Is Space So Dark Even Though The Universe Is Filled With Stars?

    Updated: 2023-10-18 18:30:00
    The dog-fox hybrid that briefly occupied Brazil's animal experts, and the world's social media feeds, is a sign of human encroachment and reproduction gone sideways.

  • NASA unveils rocks brought back from an asteroid

    Updated: 2023-10-11 22:39:01
    NASA held a briefing to reveal the rocks returned by the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission. The asteroid material was delivered to Earth in late September in a space capsule that landed in Utah.

  • A NASA space probe that's used to observe the sun has set a speed record

    Updated: 2023-10-11 09:58:00
    On its 17th probe around the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe traveled at 394,736 miles per hour — making the probe the fastest human-made object in history.

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