Hubble Finds Farthest Star Ever Spotted
Researchers pouring through high-resolution Hubble images of galaxy clusters have found the gravitationally magnified light of a star that was shining just four billion years after the Big Bang, making this bright star the new record holder for the farthest ever spotted. Plus, some launches, ice volcanoes on Pluto, melting Arctic ice, and this week in rocket history, we look back at INSAT.
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Researchers learn about the central spherical component in spiral galaxies, Comet Atlas has fragmented into pieces, and talking Mercury with Deborah Domingue Lorin and Jeffrey Kargel from PSI
Discovery of most massive supernova ever identified, explaining ‘Oumuamua’, and methane can form on icy dust particles in space
Black hole bends light, non-uniform universe expansion, and brown dwarf’s wind speed measured
MeerKAT spots unusual features in distant galaxy, photographic proof merging galaxies produce jets of charged particles, and BepiColombo makes Earth flyby
Rocket Roundup for 4/8/2020
