Astronomy Webb Successfully Deploys Its Primary Mirror by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 On January 7 and 8, 2021, two wings of 6.4-m (21-foot) gold-coated primary mirror of… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Astronomy Highly Eccentric Sub-Neptune Found Orbiting Nearby Red Dwarf by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and several ground-based facilities, astronomers have… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Astronomy Astronomers Spot Spiral within Spiral: NGC 1300 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on ESO’s… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Astronomy Chandra Detects Mini-Supermassive Black Hole in Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxy by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 A supermassive black hole with 200,000 solar masses is located in the middle of the… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Astronomy 1,000-Light-Year-Wide Local Bubble is Responsible for Formation of All Nearby, Young Stars by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer and data visualization expert Dr. Catherine Zucker and her colleagues… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Astronomy Nearby Elliptical Galaxy Hosts At Least 1,900 Globular Clusters by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 A research team led by University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory astronomers presents a new catalog… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Astronomy Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Flares Irregularly and Unpredictably, Astronomers Find by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 Sagittarius A*, the 4.3-million-solar-mass black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, is… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Astronomy Spitzer Sees Infant Stars in NGC 2174 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have produced an outstanding infrared image of the star-forming… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Astronomy Astronomers Find Exomoon Candidate around Jupiter-Sized Exoplanet Kepler-1708b by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 In their hunt for elusive exomoon candidates, astronomers have looked at 70 cool gas giants… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Astronomy NASA Releases Amazing New Photo of NGC 3318 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 Using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Astronomy CHEOPS Spots Tidally Deformed Planet around WASP-103 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 Astronomers have obtained 12 new high-precision transit observations of WASP-103b — a planet almost twice… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Astronomy DESI Creates Largest and Most Detailed Map of Universe Ever by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a multi-object survey spectrograph installed on the Nicholas U.… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Astronomy Computer Simulations Shed New Light on Gas Giant Formation by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 Solar system’s gas giants, such as Jupiter, Saturn, and massive exoplanets, were formed via the… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Astronomy Astronomers Analyze Impact of SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 Astronomers have analyzed archival images from NSF’s Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), which provides an ideal… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Astronomy Universe is Teeming with Quintillions of Stellar-Mass Black Holes by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 A team of astrophysicists from Italy and the United Kingdom has calculated that in the… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Astronomy Supermassive Black Hole Triggered Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxy by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 Astronomers have observed the central regions of Henize 2-10, a dwarf starburst galaxy previously reported… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail