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An astrophysicist explains the first JWST science images
The first science images from JWST are absolutely spectacular, but what are we seeing in them and what can learn from them? I’ve been at the National Astronomy Meeting at the University of Warwick all week with 500 of my … Continue reading
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Reveals Astounding, Unprecedented Views of the Universe | Colossal
JULY 12, 2022. GRACE EBERT “Cosmic Cliffs” in the Carina Nebula. All images courtesy of NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope unveiled its first-ever collection of high-resolution color images capturing an exceptional amount of detail about … Continue reading
Astrophotographer Captures the Andromeda Galaxy From Backyard | My Modern Met
By Jessica Stewart on June 11, 2022 Here’s what photographer Brennan Gilmore saw from his backyard in Charlottesville, Virginia. In the summer of 2020, the world was enthralled with the Comet Neowise, which only makes an appearance every 6,800 years. … Continue reading
A Mysterious Cosmic Bubble Has Surrounded The Solar System And We Finally Know Its Origin
Our solar system lies at the center of a huge bubble in space known as the local bubble. This cavity has an extremely low particle density, at least ten times lower than the average density of the interstellar medium in … Continue reading
‘Unsustainable’: how satellite swarms pose a rising threat to astronomy | Nature
Alexandra Witze Starlink satellites streak (vertically) across a time-lapse photo of the night sky near Carson National Forest, New Mexico.Credit: M. Lewinsky (CC BY 2.0) Nature – SpaceX and other companies are still struggling to make their satellites darker in … Continue reading
15+ Most Spectacular Photos of Worldwide Total Lunar Eclipse | My Modern Met
By Sara Barnes on May 18, 2022 Phases of the Total #LunarEclipse last night as seen from around Regina, SK. 🇨🇦🌝#BloodMoon #SuperFlowerMoon #lunareclipse2022 pic.twitter.com/p0xHm9Pg2q — HERRY (@herry_with_an_e) May 16, 2022 Did you catch the total lunar eclipse on May 15, … Continue reading
You’ve Seen the New Image of the Milky Way’s Black Hole – Now Hear It! | Sci-Tech Daily
This is a sonification — translation into sound — of the latest image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Using a radar-like scan, … Continue reading
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