The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured 19 spiral galaxies "face-on" in near- and mid-infrared. The images "show stars, gas, and dust on the smallest scales ever observed beyond our own galaxy," ...
Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...
The skies over Iowa recently have been filled with Northern Lights on many nights and a comet, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) ...
The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared and Mid-Infrared instruments (NIRCam & MIRI) have delivered imagery of ...
A few months later, in July, scientists released an image Webb captured of a planet circling ... Judging by astronomers' ...
In recent science news, Japan launched the world's first wooden satellite, LignoSat, testing timber for space use. The Webb ...
Recent advances in space science include Japan's launch of a wooden satellite LignoSat by Kyoto University and Sumitomo Forestry. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals primordial black holes with ...
If you need to stare into an abyss, it might as well be beautiful.
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...
JWST, a groundbreaking space observatory, enhances our understanding of the cosmos by studying distant galaxies, star ...