JWST Sees Multiple Gravitational Lenses in a Massive Cluster: “The Fishhook” and “The Thin One”
We've been getting plenty of spectacular images from the James Webb Space Telescope since it began operations last year. Fraser…
Follow a Simulated Journey of the Destruction of ESA’s Aeolus Mission
On July 28th, the European Space Agency commanded its long-working Aeolus wind profile mission to re-enter Earth's atmosphere. It did…
A Massive Solar Storm was Detected on Earth, Mars, and the Moon
The coronal mass ejection on October 28th, 2021, was measured by missions on Earth, the Moon, and Mars for the…
Yes! A JWST Image of the Ring Nebula
Brace yourselves for great JWST views of the iconic Ring Nebula (M57). An international team of astronomers just released a…
Light Pollution from Skyglow Changes Bird Behavior
In the astronomy community, we typically this of light pollution as an overall negative. Much research points out its negative…
JWST is the Perfect Machine to Resolve the Hubble Tension
Over the last decade, various measurements have disagreed over the rate that the Universe is expanding. Astronomers use Cepheid variables…
China’s Chang’e-7 Will Deploy a Hopper that Jumps into a Crater in Search of Water Ice
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese National Space Administration recently published a study in the journal…
Does the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole Have a Companion?
Astronomers have found stellar mass and supermassive black holes, but they're still on the hunt for an intermediate size; black…
Variable Stars can Tell us Where and When to Search for Extraterrestrials
A new study cross-references supernova from the Gaia observatory's third data release with possible alien transmissions.
Euclid Reaches L2, Shares its First Test Image
ESA's Euclid mission has made the journey through space to reach the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange Point. The two instruments on…