Webb’s Window Into Cosmic Birth: Ice Pebble Drift Sparks Planetary Life
Drifting pebbles deliver water to the inner regions of planet-forming disks How are planets born? Scientists have long proposed that ice-covered pebbles are the seeds…
Drifting pebbles deliver water to the inner regions of planet-forming disks How are planets born? Scientists have long proposed that ice-covered pebbles are the seeds…
Euclid shows us a spectacularly panoramic and detailed view of the Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33 and part of the constellation Orion. At…
Research team, including a UC Riverside astronomer, made discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team, including…
Astronomers have found the most distant X-ray black hole, challenging our understanding of supermassive black hole formation in the early universe. Astronomers using NASA telescopes…
The TRISAT-R CubeSat, equipped with a tiny camera, captured a unique image of Earth from 6,000 km, contributing to ESA’s research in medium-Earth orbit and…
Euclid’s detailed imaging of the NGC 6397 globular cluster may reveal tidal tails and offer new insights into dark matter’s role in the Milky Way,…
The result: A vivid landscape of galaxies along with more than a dozen newfound, time-varying objects. When two flagship observatories unite, they reveal a wealth…
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a vivid image of the globular star cluster Terzan 12, illustrating how space dust can affect starlight. This colorful…
Euclid’s View of Irregular Galaxy NGC 6822 Euclid’s high-resolution imaging of the NGC 6822 galaxy and its globular clusters offers new perspectives on the Universe’s…
A key indicator of a growing supermassive black hole – X-ray emission – has been found in an extremely distant galaxy. This galaxy, UHZ1, is…
Astronomers have discovered an ancient galaxy’s magnetic field, shedding light on the early universe’s cosmic evolution and star formation processes. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…
Today, ESA’s Euclid space mission reveals its first full-color images of the cosmos. Never before has a telescope been able to create such razor-sharp astronomical…
Euclid’s View of Spiral Galaxy IC 342 Over its lifetime, ESA’s Euclid, our dark Universe detective will image billions of galaxies, revealing the hidden influence…
Euclid’s groundbreaking image of the Perseus Cluster and myriad distant galaxies offers new insights into dark matter’s influence on the Universe’s structure and the ongoing…
New reserarch has revealed that quasars, the bright centers of galaxies, can be hidden by the very galaxies they inhabit. This contradicts the old belief…
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected 540 planetary-mass objects, believed to be rogue planets, in the Orion Nebula and Trapezium Cluster. It appears that…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope provides a new ultraviolet image of Jupiter during its opposition, revealing details like the Great Red Spot in false-color to highlight…
This Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 941, which is located approximately 55 million light-years from Earth. The data used for this…