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All the Planets Science Can Design

by Pamela Gay | Jul 23, 2024 | Galaxies & Cosmology

Before we go, I just want to take a moment to share something beautiful. Image credit: Martin Vargic Out of the blue, I received an email from artist and infographic designer Martin Vargic, and I have to admit, few random email have been quite so pleasing. He just wanted to let me know that he’d produced an infographic highlighting vast diversity of worlds that have been discovered since 1992. From pulsar orbiting planets, to gas giants, to earth-like worlds, he has included a little bit of everything in his poster of over 1100 known worlds, in which each world is depicted through a...

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Euclid releases first images

by Beth Johnson | Nov 29, 2023 | Galaxies & Cosmology, images, Stars & Nebulae

Just when we thought nothing could be more stunning than the images being released almost weekly by JWST, along comes the newest space telescope on the block - the European Space Agency’s Euclid. The mission launched in July of this year, and as with JWST, has...

New Simulation Provides More Accurate Model of Everything

by Pamela Gay | Nov 22, 2023 | Galaxies & Cosmology, Technology

Credit: Josh Borrow, the FLAMINGO team and the Virgo Consortium To succeed in astronomy, you really need to either be really really good with technology, or really really good at math. I personally am a technology person, and I’ll happily operate telescopes and write...

“Perfect Pairs” of black holes may dot universe

by Pamela Gay | Nov 17, 2023 | Galaxies & Cosmology

Image Credit: APS/Alan Stonebraker Pairs of objects are responsible for some of the coolest phenomena in our universe, and while a lot of these pairs end up merging into a single object given enough time, there are a few… theoretically at least… that the universe...

Gamma Ray Burst reveals Tellurium

by Pamela Gay | Nov 17, 2023 | Galaxies & Cosmology, Stars & Nebulae

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Levan (IMAPP, Warw), A. Pagan (STScI) One of the awesome things about growing older as an astronomer is you get to see the weird stuff no one understood in your youth become the everyday normal of your middle age. While we still...

Dark “Stars” or galaxies?

by Pamela Gay | Aug 2, 2023 | Galaxies & Cosmology

JWST initially identified these three objects (JADES-GS-z13-0, JADES-GS-z12-0 and JADES-GS-z11-0) as galaxies in December 2022. Now a team suggests they might be “dark stars,” theoretical objects powered by particles of dark matter annihilating. Credit: NASA/ESA We...

Found: Galaxies lining up in early universe

by Pamela Gay | Jul 21, 2023 | Galaxies & Cosmology

This deep galaxy field from Webb's Near-Infrared Camera shows an arrangement of 10 distant galaxies (white circles) in a diagonal. NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang/University of Arizona and Joseph DePasquale/STScI Currently, a lot of the research we see coming from JWST is...

Found: Time slows with distance

by Pamela Gay | Jul 20, 2023 | Galaxies & Cosmology

Before we go to break, I want to highlight one more piece of news. In a new paper in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers Geraint Lewis and Brendon Brewer show evidence for time appearing to tick slower in the early universe. According to relativity, as our...

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