Astronomy
Astronomers Have Digitized 94,000 Photographic Plates of the Night sky, Going Back 129 Years
Since the early days of the internet, and even computers more generally, there has been a push to collect all…
Hubble Sees a Mirror Image of the Same Galaxy Thanks to Gravitational Lensing
It's been an amazing couple of weeks for fans of gravitational lensing. JWST grabbed the headlines with a spectacular infrared…
Researchers Create a Plasma Bubble With Lasers That Could Provide Propulsion or an Artificial Magnetosphere
Lasers are useful for a lot of things. They made CDs work (when they were still a thing). They also…
SLS Launch Date, Falcon Heavy Gets Flagship NASA Telescope, Dormant Black Hole
SLS finally gets a launch date for Artemis I, JWST keeps giving the goodness, Percy finds another weird thing on…
NASA Wants Your Help Designing a Starshade to Observe Exoplanets
NASA is seeking the public's input for a Starshade that will allow ground-based telescopes to Directly Image exoplanets!
Astronomers Have a New Way to Find Exoplanets in Cataclysmic Binary Systems
Have you heard of LU Camelopardalis, QZ Serpentis, V1007 Herculis and BK Lyncis? No, they're not members of a boy…
JWST Sees the Most Distant Galaxy Ever, Just 300 Million Years After the Big Bang
By now, almost everyone has seen the first-release images from JWST and marveled at these amazing views of the infrared…
Here’s M74 Like You’ve Never Seen it Before, Thanks to Judy Schmidt and JWST
The JWST is grabbing headlines and eyeballs as its mission gains momentum. The telescope recently imaged M74 (NGC 628) with…
A Dormant Black Hole has Been Discovered Just Outside the Milky Way
What happens when a massive star dies? Conventional wisdom (and observational evidence) say that it can collapse to form a…
You can see Where JWST Took a Direct hit From a Micrometeorite on one of its Mirrors
A recently-released report examines the James Webb Space Telescope's performance and discusses the micrometeoroid impacts that could threaten the mission