Astronomy
Now we Know why Spaceflight Affects Your Eyes
70% of astronauts who spend time on the International Space Station (ISS) experience swelling at the back of their eyes,…
Astronomers Discover a Totally New Kind of Nebula
Most Universe Today readers are familiar with nebulae. They're gaseous structures lit up with radiation from nearby stars, and they're…
A New Image Reveals Orion’s Flame Nebula in Infrared
The ESO has released some stunning new images of Orion's Flame Nebula. They're from a few years ago but are…
An Incredible View Into the Heart of the Small Magellanic Cloud
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is over 200,000 light-years away, yet it's still one of our galaxy's closest neighbours in…
Astronomers Find the Biggest Structure in the Milky Way, a Filament of Hydrogen 1,600 Light-Years Long
An international team of astronomers spotted the largest filament of hydrogen in our galaxy, which could offer tantalizing clues about…
Astronomers Find 70 Planets Without Stars Floating Free in the Milky Way
A international team of astronomers, using observatories all over the world (and one in space), discovered 70 new rogue planets…
2029 Will be the Perfect Year to Launch a Mission to Sedna
Object 90377 Sedna - a distant trans-Neptunian object known best for its highly elliptical, 11,390-year long orbit - is currently…
A Detailed Scan of the Milky Way Finds Possible “Fossil” Spiral Arms
New research has revealed previously unknown wispy structures in the Milky Way disk that could offer clues about the history…
JWST Just Deployed a Sail That Lets it Stop Getting Pushed Around by the Sun’s Radiation.
The James Webb just deployed another important instrument - the aft momentum flap - that will keep the telescope steady…
An Exoplanet Found Protected by a Magnetosphere
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has spotted the magnetosphere of an exoplanet for the first…