Carolyn Collins Petersen
A Giant Galaxy has been Unwinding its Neighbor for 400 Million Years
The interacting galaxy pair NGC 1512 and NGC 1510 take center stage in this image from the Dark Energy Camera,…
3 years ago
Lunar Samples Have Been in the Deep Freeze for 50 Years. NASA Finally has the Right Technology to Study Them Properly
Curators handling lunar rocks take extreme care to keep these materials from contamination as they work with them in cold…
3 years ago
A Pulsar and Star are Orbiting Each Other Every 62 Minutes. The Fastest “Black Widow” Binary Ever Seen
Caption: An illustrated view of a black widow pulsar and its stellar companion. The pulsar’s gamma-ray emissions (magenta) strongly heat…
3 years ago
Pulsars Could Explain the Excess of Gamma Radiation Coming from the Center of the Milky Way
A gamma-ray view of the sky centered on the core of the Milky Way Galaxy. Could strange spinning neutron stars…
3 years ago
Astronomers Discover Eight Echoes from Black Holes
A black hole in an x-ray binary system pulls material away from its neighbor star and into its accretion disk.…
3 years ago
Solar Power in a Future Martian Lifestyle
An artist's concept of a future biomanufacturing lab on Mars, powered by photovoltaic (solar power) technology. It will also synthesize…
3 years ago