New Technique Looks for Dark Matter Traces in Dark Places
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope indicates that a huge ring of dark matter likely exists surrounding the center of CL0024+17 that has no normal matter counterpart. CREDIT: NASA, ESA, M. J. Jee and H. Ford et al. (Johns Hopkins Univ.) Researchers look...
ALMA Resolves Gas Impacted by Young Jets from Supermassive Black Hole
Reconstructed images of what MG J0414+0534 would look like if gravitational lensing effects were turned off. The emissions from dust and ionized gas around a quasar are shown in red. The emissions from carbon monoxide gas are shown in green, which have a bipolar...
Earth’s own evolution used as guide to hunt exoplanets
This artistic depiction shows exoplanet Kepler-62f, a rocky super-Earth size planet, located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. Kepler-62f may be what a prebiotic Earth may have looked like. Other exoplanets may look similar. CREDIT: NASA...
Comet ATLAS may soon be visible to the naked eye
Between the end of March and the middle of June, ATLAS will slip through several familiar constellations and come close to some easily identifiable bright stars, including Capella, Aldebaran, and Betelgeuse. CREDIT: Alison Klesman (via TheSkyX) Comet ATLAS may soon be...
Star Formation Project Maps Nearby Interstellar Clouds
Montage of the CO molecule radio emission-line intensities in the three regions observed by the Star Formation Project and the Nobeyama 45 m Radio Telescope. CREDIT:NAOJ Star Formation Project Maps Nearby Interstellar Clouds (Nobeyama Radio Observatory) The NAOJ has...
Astronomers have found the edge of the Milky Way at last, maybe
In this image from the Fermi space telescope, the Milky Way's stellar disk, which runs horizontally along the middle, glows in gamma rays. A vast halo of dark matter engulfs the disk and emits no light at all, which makes measuring the galaxy’s total size a challenge....
Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret
Voyager 2 took this image as it approached the planet Uranus on Jan. 14, 1986. The planet's hazy bluish color is due to the methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light. CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists...
Launches that are being cancelled/delayed by COVID-19
IMAGES: While many around the world are in quarantine, the space industry is trying to find its way forward in a more virtual environment. LEFT CREDIT: CCTV RIGHT CREDIT: iQonset/Shutterstock Canaveral/Kennedy ...
China Launched Its Yaogan Weixing Mission Successfully
IMAGE: CG image of the three newly deployed Yaogan 2 satellites being deployed CREDIT: CCTV Yaogan-30-06 | Long March 2C (EverydayAstronaut) China Launched Its Yaogan Weixing Mission Successfully (DualDove)Yaogan 30-01, 30-02, 30-03, 30-04, 30-05, 30-06 (CX 5)...
Soyuz rocket successfully launches 34 more OneWeb satellites
IMAGE: OneWeb’s Launch #3 mission patch. The mission name commemorates the 55th anniversary of the first human spacewalk, made by Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov (1934 - 2019). CREDIT: OneWeb Soyuz rocket successfully launches 34 more OneWeb satellites (Spaceflight Now) Amid...
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