AstronomyWebb Successfully Deploys Its Primary Mirror by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023On January 7 and 8, 2021, two wings of 6.4-m (21-foot) gold-coated primary mirror of… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AstronomyHighly Eccentric Sub-Neptune Found Orbiting Nearby Red Dwarf by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and several ground-based facilities, astronomers have… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AstronomyAstronomers Spot Spiral within Spiral: NGC 1300 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on ESO’s… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AstronomyChandra Detects Mini-Supermassive Black Hole in Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxy by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023A supermassive black hole with 200,000 solar masses is located in the middle of the… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Astronomy1,000-Light-Year-Wide Local Bubble is Responsible for Formation of All Nearby, Young Stars by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer and data visualization expert Dr. Catherine Zucker and her colleagues… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AstronomyNearby Elliptical Galaxy Hosts At Least 1,900 Globular Clusters by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023A research team led by University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory astronomers presents a new catalog… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AstronomyMilky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Flares Irregularly and Unpredictably, Astronomers Find by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023Sagittarius A*, the 4.3-million-solar-mass black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, is… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AstronomySpitzer Sees Infant Stars in NGC 2174 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have produced an outstanding infrared image of the star-forming… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AstronomyAstronomers Find Exomoon Candidate around Jupiter-Sized Exoplanet Kepler-1708b by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023In their hunt for elusive exomoon candidates, astronomers have looked at 70 cool gas giants… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AstronomyNASA Releases Amazing New Photo of NGC 3318 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023Using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AstronomyCHEOPS Spots Tidally Deformed Planet around WASP-103 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023Astronomers have obtained 12 new high-precision transit observations of WASP-103b — a planet almost twice… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AstronomyDESI Creates Largest and Most Detailed Map of Universe Ever by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a multi-object survey spectrograph installed on the Nicholas U.… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AstronomyComputer Simulations Shed New Light on Gas Giant Formation by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023Solar system’s gas giants, such as Jupiter, Saturn, and massive exoplanets, were formed via the… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AstronomyAstronomers Analyze Impact of SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023Astronomers have analyzed archival images from NSF’s Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), which provides an ideal… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AstronomyUniverse is Teeming with Quintillions of Stellar-Mass Black Holes by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023A team of astrophysicists from Italy and the United Kingdom has calculated that in the… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
AstronomySupermassive Black Hole Triggered Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxy by johnsmith 21 March, 2023 by johnsmith 21 March, 2023Astronomers have observed the central regions of Henize 2-10, a dwarf starburst galaxy previously reported… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail