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A NASA mission has observed a supermassive black hole pointing its highly energetic jet straight toward Earth. Don't panic just yet, though. As fearsome as this cosmic event is, it's located at a very safe distance of about 400 million light-years away.
Actively feeding supermassive black holes, including the one at ha... | Cosmology & The Universe |
An observation of a planetary nebula from the NIRCam instrument of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe and released July 12, 2022. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY ... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope's first year of interstellar observation, an international team of researchers was able to serendipitously view an exploding supernova in a faraway spiral galaxy.
The study, published recently in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, provides new infrared measurements of one ... | Cosmology & The Universe |
A European Space Agency telescope launched Saturday on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida to begin a $1.5 billion mission seeking to answer fundamental questions about the unseen forces driving the expansion of the Universe. The Euclid telescope, named for the ancient Greek mathematician, will observe billion... | Cosmology & The Universe |
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer), a space observatory by NASA designed to explore the origin of the universe, galaxies, and water in planetary systems. Credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The cosmic optical ba... | Cosmology & The Universe |
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and universities in Canada and the U.S. say they have detected a radio signal from a far-away galaxy that is flashing repetitively. In research published in the Journal Nature, authored by members of the Canadian ... | Cosmology & The Universe |
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the "signature of water" and evidence of clouds and haze on a giant gas planet orbiting a distant sunlike star 1,150 light-years away. The observation comes with the release of the first five full-color images from the telescope by NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Can... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Just as Charles Darwin once used the fossil record to tell the story of the evolution of life on Earth, astronomers are using the first light ever to shine through the universe to understand events that have shaped the cosmos.
This first light is called the "Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)," leftover radiation which ... | Cosmology & The Universe |
A filament of 10 galaxies seen just 830 million years after the birth of the universe.
Woven across our universe is a weblike structure of galaxies called the cosmic web. Galaxies are strung along filaments in this vast web, which also contains enormous voids. Now, astronomers using Webb have discovered an early strand... | Cosmology & The Universe |
The world of astronomy mourned the recent passing of Dutch-American astronomer Maarten Schmidt, the first person to measure the distance to a quasar. His groundbreaking work in the 1960’s greatly expanded the size of the known universe, providing one of the first clues that the Big Bang theory was correct. Schmidt died... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Scientists find first evidence that black holes are the source of dark energy
Observations of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies point to a likely source of dark energy—the 'missing' 70% of the universe.
The measurements from ancient and dormant galaxies show black holes growing more than expected, ali... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Planning is well underway for NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), which will scour the atmospheres of planets outside the solar system for telltale signs of alien life.
This week, a workshop was held at the California Institute for Technology (Caltech) at which scientists and engineers discussed the state of tec... | Cosmology & The Universe |
The greatest puzzle in cosmology just got even more puzzling.
Images from the James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed that the universe appears to be expanding significantly faster than it should be, researchers report in a study accepted in the Astrophysical Journal. The observation is in conflict with an esteemed t... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Space Updated on: September 6, 2022 / 7:56 PM / CBS News NASA releases stunning Webb Telescope images NASA releases stunning Webb Telescope images, previewing discoveries to come 03:29 NASA's highly sensitive James Webb Space Telescope has captured an extremely detailed image of thousands of never-before-seen young sta... | Cosmology & The Universe |
An international team has spotted a remote blast of cosmic radio waves lasting less than a millisecond. This 'fast radio burst' (FRB) is the most distant ever detected. Its source was pinned down by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in a galaxy so far away that its light took eight bi... | Cosmology & The Universe |
New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed
Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called "impossible early galaxy problem."
The work is publis... | Cosmology & The Universe |
HomeSpaceScientists May Find ‘Evidence’ of Another Universe Before Our Own Scientists find proof of previous universes in the night
sky, namely the leftovers of black holes from a previous universe.The detailed, all-sky picture of the infant universe created
from nine years of WMAP data. The image reveals 13.77 billion... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Does anybody remember GLASS-z13? No?It was spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope and championed as the "oldest galaxy ever seen" and it was announced... six days ago.Yes, that's right. Not even a week ago, two pre-print papers posted to scientific article repository arXiv (pronounced "archive") detailed some of the... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Could dark photon dark matter be directly detected using radio telescopes?
Dark matter, matter in the universe that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, cannot be directly detected using conventional telescopes or other imaging technologies. Astrophysicists have thus been trying to identify alternative methods to de... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Space September 21, 2022 / 1:51 PM / CBS/AFP The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its gaze away from the deep universe toward our home Solar System, capturing an image of a luminous Neptune and its delicate, dusty rings in detail not seen in decades, NASA said Wednesday. Hey Neptune. Did you ring? 👋Webb’s latest ... | Cosmology & The Universe |
How fast is the universe really expanding? Multiple views of an exploding star raise new questions
How did we get here? Where are we going? And how long will it take? These questions are as old as humanity itself, and, if they've already been asked by other species elsewhere in the universe, potentially very much older... | Cosmology & The Universe |
How did the universe come to be? The prevailing theory is everything that is began with the Big Bang. In a nutshell, the theory suggests everything, everywhere, all at once suddenly burst to life. The caveat being everything and everywhere prior to the Big Bang is fairly hard to conceptualize. The Big Bang theory is cu... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Space August 30, 2022 / 8:44 AM / CBS News New James Webb Space Telescope images released Images from James Webb Space Telescope reveal more of the universe 05:27 The veteran and the new kid on the block have teamed up to produce a spectacular image of the Phantom Galaxy. The European Space Agency released a new photo ... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Largest catalog of exploding stars now available
Celestial phenomena that change with time such as exploding stars, mysterious objects that suddenly brighten and variable stars are a new frontier in astronomical research, with telescopes that can rapidly survey the sky revealing thousands of these objects.
The largest ... | Cosmology & The Universe |
silly string — Cosmic strings' greatest power? Their ability to confound physicists. Enlarge / A computer-generated simulation of cosmic strings.Chris Ringeval Remember that time in the Lord of the Rings lore when the dwarves of Moria dug too greedily and too deep, unearthing the Balrog, an ancient horror not meant to ... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Astronomers have observed a huge, mysterious dark spot on the surface of Neptune from Earth for the first time — and discovered a puzzling bright counterpart close to it.
While scientists still don't comprehend the origins of this shadowy patch on the blue surface of the distant ice giant, new observations made using t... | Cosmology & The Universe |
The "Cosmic Cliffs" of the Carina Nebula is seen in an image divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion, with data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos ... | Cosmology & The Universe |
This colourful stripe of stars, gas, and dust is actually a spiral galaxy named NGC 1055. Captured here by ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), this big galaxy is thought to be up to 15 percent larger in diameter than the Milky Way. NGC 1055 appears to lack the whirling arms characteristic of a spiral, as it is seen edge-... | Cosmology & The Universe |
By Michael J. I. Brown - Monash UniversityA telescope can reveal the beauty of the universe, such as the Moon’s craters, Saturn’s rings, and the glowing gas of the Orion nebula. But a telescope isn’t just for sightseeing – it is also a scientific instrument.If you’ve just received a telescope as a present then it’s pro... | Cosmology & The Universe |
For millennia, humans have been fascinated by the mysteries of the cosmos.
Unlike ancient philosophers imagining the universe's origins, modern cosmologists use quantitative tools to gain insights into the universe's evolution and structure. Modern cosmology dates back to the early 20th century, with the development of... | Cosmology & The Universe |
The group building the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile has secured a $205 million investment that will help push construction of the massive instrument over the finish line. The money will go toward the facility that will house the telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory high in Chile’s Atacama Desert. When the tel... | Cosmology & The Universe |
In a paper published today in Science, a global team led by Macquarie University’s Dr Stuart Ryder and Swinburne University of Technology’s Associate Professor Ryan Shannon, report on their discovery of the most ancient and distant fast radio burst located to date, about eight billion years old.
The discovery smashes t... | Cosmology & The Universe |
This image provided by NASA on Monday, July 11, 2022, shows galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope is designed to peer back so far that scientists can get a glimpse of the dawn of the universe about 13.7 billion years ago and zoom in on closer cosmic objects, even our own s... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has culminated in a significant breakthrough in understanding the evolution of the universe.
For millennia, humans have been fascinated by the mysteries of the cosmos.
Unlike ancient philosophers imagining the universe’s origins, modern cosmologists use quantita... | Cosmology & The Universe |
The James Webb Space Telescope prior to launch. The telescope is designed to peer back so far that scientists will get a glimpse of the dawn of the universe about 13.7 billion years ago and zoom in on closer cosmic objects with sharper focus.Laura Betz/AP file Allison Strom sent a note on her astronomer text chain read... | Cosmology & The Universe |
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — NASA on Tuesday unveiled a new batch of images from its new powerful space telescope, including a foamy blue and orange shot of a dying star.The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope was released Monday at the White House — a jumble of distant galaxies that went deeper into t... | Cosmology & The Universe |
NASA released some of the very first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12, 2022. They mark the beginning of the next era in astronomy as Webb – the largest space telescope ever built – offers scientific data that will help answer questions about the earliest moments of the universe and allow astron... | Cosmology & The Universe |
New data from the Dark Energy Survey and South Pole Telescope suggest that the universe is less ‘clumpy’ than the standard cosmological model predicts. This has triggered speculation about new forces and insights into the nature of dark matter and dark energy. But this entire project is deeply misguided. We already hav... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Astronomers presented us with a mysterious video Wednesday: footage decked with lime green smudges steadily evolving on a dark background. But right at the center of this recording, one smudge isn't like the others. It's the brightest neon blob of all, and it enhances with each frame. What you're seeing is proof that s... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Our picture of cosmic evolution could be thrown into doubt by the discovery of a massive galaxy that seems to lack dark matter.
Dark matter, which accounts for around 85% of the matter in the universe, seems to be absent from the galaxy NGC 1277, part of the Perseus Cluster of galaxies. The galaxy, located 240 million ... | Cosmology & The Universe |
WASHINGTON -- A stellar nursery where stars are born, interactions between galaxies and a unique view of an exoplanet are just some of the new cosmic images were shared Tuesday.After decades of waiting, it's finally time for the world to see the first images taken by the most powerful space telescope ever -- the James ... | Cosmology & The Universe |
When it comes to exploration, robots can outperform astronauts at a far lower cost and without risk of human life. Why, then, do so many people conceive of space exploration as the domain of humans rather than robotic explorers? Martin Rees and Donald Goldsmith explore why robots are the future of space exploration.Ho... | Cosmology & The Universe |
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA's future infrared space observatory that will attempt to tackle some of the most pressing questions in cosmology by addressing the mysteries of dark energy.
The telescope also known as "Roman" or the "Roman Space Telescope" will also search for planets outside the solar sys... | Cosmology & The Universe |
A chameleon-like force that shifts its nature based on its environment could explain a major physics quandary: how the mysterious substance called dark energy is compelling the cosmos to expand faster and faster. But a new experiment casts doubt on some chameleon theories, researchers report August 25 in Nature Physics... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Scientists have mapped out the dark matter around some of the earliest, most distant galaxies yet. The 1.5 million galaxies appear as they were 12 billion years ago, or less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang. Those galaxies distort the cosmic microwave background — light emitted during an even earlier era of the ... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Everything we know about the evolution of the early universe is currently being challenged. Multiple galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope do not match up with the standard model of cosmology that astronomers currently believe in.
According to a new study published in Nature Astronomy, six of the earlie... | Cosmology & The Universe |
By Daniel StolteA new technique for estimating the mass of the Milky Way galaxy promises more reliable results, especially when it’s applied to large datasets generated by current and future surveys, according to new research. The study, which appears in the Astrophysical Journal, is the first to combine the observed f... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Infinity is back. Or rather, it never (ever, ever…) went away. While mathematicians have a good sense of the infinite as a concept, cosmologists and physicists are finding it much more difficult to make sense of the infinite in nature, writes Peter Cameron. Each of us has to face a moment, often fairly early in our lif... | Cosmology & The Universe |
October 06, 2022 02:11 PM Computer simulations created by scientists showcase alternate theories of how the moon was created through a giant impact, challenging the prevailing belief that the moon was formed from a disk of debris orbiting the Earth. The researchers from Durham University’s Institute for Computational C... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Science Jul 11, 2022 6:37 PM EDT President Joe Biden on Monday revealed the very first full-color image from the James Webb Space Telescope, showing a stretch of space studded with thousands of galaxies. It’s the highest resolution image of the infrared universe anyone has ever seen.
Dubbed “Webb’s First Deep Field,” t... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Key pointsNASA to share first images from new James Webb Space TelescopePictures from the most powerful telescope in history due at 3.30pmThe very first image was revealed by President Biden on MondayAnalysis by Tom Clarke: Why is this such a big deal?Updates from Tom Clarke, science editor, and Jess Breadman, producer... | Cosmology & The Universe |
The James Webb space telescope has once more gazed into the bowels of the universe to produce one of the most mesmerizing images the world has ever seen. This time, the newly minted space telescope took a gander at the Orion Nebula. The result is a fantastic picture full of twinkling stars and vast wispy clouds. This i... | Cosmology & The Universe |
The James Webb space telescope has detected what appear to be six massive ancient galaxies, which astronomers are calling “universe breakers” because their existence could upend current theories of cosmology.
The objects date to a time when the universe was just 3% of its current age and are far larger than was presume... | Cosmology & The Universe |
When Thomas Hertog was first summoned to Stephen Hawking's office in the late 1990s, there was an instant connection between the young Belgian researcher and the legendary British theoretical physicist.
"Something clicked between us," Hertog said.
That connection would continue even as Hawking's debilitating disease AL... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Einstein's theory of gravity — general relativity — has been very successful for more than a century. However, it has theoretical shortcomings. This is not surprising: the theory predicts its own failure at spacetime singularities inside black holes — and the Big Bang itself.
Unlike physical theories describing the oth... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Dubbed “Webb’s First Deep Field,” it is the first full-color image from the $10 billion observatory that launched into space last year.This image, known as "Webb's First Deep Field," is the first full-color image released from the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope. It is the sharpest infrared image of the dist... | Cosmology & The Universe |
| July 11, 2022 04:56 PM | Updated Jul 11, 2022, 07:34 PM President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled one of the first images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope on Monday, hailed as the "deepest" and sharpest infrared image of the universe ever produced. The image covers a "patch of sky appro... | Cosmology & The Universe |
An international investigation, led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), finds the first evidence of a massive galaxy without dark matter, which defies the current standard of cosmology. According to an IAC note, this is the first time that a massive galaxy (with seve... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Astronomers have spotted the most distant fast radio burst (FRB) to date in a galaxy so far away that its light took eight billion years to reach Earth.
The remote blast of cosmic radio waves, whose source was detected by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), lasted less than a millisec... | Cosmology & The Universe |
NASA released the first batch of pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday. These glimpses into space are utterly breathtaking and showcase the beauty of the universe. As a grand finale during its livestream, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration released a picture of the Carina Nebula that wa... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Black Holes Formation and Detection Methods
Black holes are objects in space with such strong gravitational force that nothing can escape their pull, not even light. They form when a massive star runs out of fuel and collapses in on itself, creating a singularity at the center. Scientists study black holes by observing... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Published September 6, 2022 12:19PM Updated 1:28PM article In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars that were previously shrouded NASA’s Jame... | Cosmology & The Universe |
When two black holes collide into each other to form a new bigger black hole, they violently roil spacetime around them, sending ripples called gravitational waves outward in all directions. Previous studies of black hole collisions modeled the behavior of the gravitational waves using what is known as linear math, whi... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Spin me round: Conceptual image of the distant galaxy MACS1149-JD1 forming and spinning up to speed in the early universe. (Courtesy: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)) One of the most distant galaxies ever observed is very likely to be rotating, say astronomers. An international team led by Tsuyoshi Tokuoka of Waseda University, J... | Cosmology & The Universe |
By Daniel Brown, Trent UniversityIf you ask yourself what the biggest threat to human existence is you’d probably think of nuclear war, global warming or a large-scale pandemic disease. But assuming we can overcome such challenges, are we really safe?Living on our blue little planet seems safe until you are aware of wh... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Their sum is both a new vision of the universe and a view of the universe as it once appeared new.“That was always out there,” said Jane Rigby, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and the telescope’s operations manager. “We just had to build a telescope to go see what was there.”T... | Cosmology & The Universe |
On July 12, NASA released the Webb telescope’s first images. Now, the space agency has translated the data from those images into sounds, allowing us to hear the cosmic wonders the telescope saw.OffEnglishWebb images in the near-infrared and mid-infrared, which encompass wavelengths human eyes are not capable of seeing... | Cosmology & The Universe |
In a former gold mine a mile underground, inside a titanium tank filled with a rare liquified gas, scientists have begun the search for what so far has been unfindable: dark matter.Scientists are pretty sure the invisible stuff makes up most of the universe’s mass and say we wouldn’t be here without it – but they don’t... | Cosmology & The Universe |
First light: an image of the “southern ring” nebula was released today as part of five first images from the James Webb Space Telescope. Left is from the NIRCam instrument while right is using the the MIRI instrument (Courtesy: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI) The first tranche of images and data from the $10bn James Webb Sp... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Despite a primary diet of gas and dust, black holes will consume anything that comes too close — meaning moons, planets and even stars are on the cosmic menu. But does this mean black holes greedily suck in everything around them, like cosmic vacuum cleaners, as commonly imagined?
The answer is no. To feed and grow, bl... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Artist's illustration of a small Saturn-like planet discovered in the system LkCa 15. The planet resides within dense rings of dust and gas that surround a bright yellow star. Material accumulates in a clump and arc-shape, about 60 degrees away from the planet. Note: This illustration is not to scale. Credit: M.Weiss/C... | Cosmology & The Universe |
By Matt WilliamsUnderstanding how the Universe came to be is one of the greater challenges of being an astrophysicist. Given the observable Universe’s sheer size (46.6 billion light years) and staggering age (13.8 billion years), this is no easy task. Nevertheless, ongoing observations, calculations and computer simula... | Cosmology & The Universe |
The "deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date" has been revealed. The picture was made public by NASA and is the first to be taken by the world's most advanced telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
"We're looking back more than 13 billion years... and we're going further... this i... | Cosmology & The Universe |
A new paper, published in AIP Advances, examines the scientific implications of the new law on a number of other physical systems and environments, including biological, atomic physics, and cosmology. Key findings include:
- Biological systems: The second law of infodynamics challenges the conventional understanding of... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Galaxy clusters yield new evidence for standard model of cosmology
Cosmologists have found new evidence for the standard model of cosmology—this time, using data on the structure of galaxy clusters.
In a recent study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a team led by physicists at the Departm... | Cosmology & The Universe |
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Like a bright city in the middle of a barren desert, our galactic neighborhood is enveloped by a cosmic void — an enormous, almost unfathomably empty pocket of space. Recently, sky surveys have spotted thousands more of these vacant bubbles. Now, researchers have found a way to pull information out of thes... | Cosmology & The Universe |
A collision between two ancient icy moons that may have once orbited Saturn could have given rise to the planet's iconic ring system, a new study reveals.
Saturn is probably the most eye-catching planet in the solar system, but it may also be one of the most mind-boggling. Surrounded by a series of seven concentric rin... | Cosmology & The Universe |
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keeps spotting galaxies that are too big to exist, scientists have claimed.
Six of these star clusters are far too massive to be the age their data suggests they are, which is between 500 and 700 million years old.
This means that, unless the data has been analysed incorrectly... | Cosmology & The Universe |
The Moon is Earth’s constant companion. But as ubiquitous as Luna may seem, Earth hasn’t always had a moon.
Some 4.5 billion years ago, when the solar system was still forming, a wandering Mars-sized body named Theia slammed into a fledgling, moonless Earth. Traditionally, it is thought that this Theia-Earth collision ... | Cosmology & The Universe |
This image compares two new views of the Eagle Nebula's Pillars of Creation captured by Hubble.(Left) Pillars are seen in visible light. (Right) is taken in infrared light, which penetrates much of the obscuring dust and gas and unveils a more unfamiliar view of the pillars. NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Tea... | Cosmology & The Universe |
By Geraint Lewis, University of Sydney & Prajwal R. Kafle, Univeristy of Western AustraliaHow did large galaxies, like our own Milky Way and the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, emerge from the featureless soup that existed after the birth of our universe?Decades of observations and theoretical effort have provided a picture i... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Massimo Pascale wasn’t planning to study the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. But as soon as he saw the cluster glittering in the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, he and his colleagues couldn’t help themselves. “We were like, we have to do something,” says Pascale, an astronomer at the University of ... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Key pointsNASA to share first images from new James Webb Space TelescopePictures from the most powerful telescope in history due at 3.30pmThe very first image was revealed by President Biden on MondayAnalysis by Tom Clarke: Why is this such a big deal?Updates from Tom Clarke, science editor, and Jess Breadman, producer... | Cosmology & The Universe |
As the universe evolves, scientists expect large cosmic structures to grow at a certain rate: dense regions such as galaxy clusters would grow denser, while the void of space would grow emptier.
But University of Michigan researchers have discovered that the rate at which these large structures grow is slower than pred... | Cosmology & The Universe |
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A sparkling landscape of baby stars. A foamy blue and orange view of a dying star. Five galaxies in a cosmic dance. The splendors of the universe glowed in a new batch of images released Tuesday from NASA’s powerful new telescope.The unveiling from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope began ... | Cosmology & The Universe |
On Christmas Day last year, 30 years after its conception, the James Webb space telescope launched from French Guiana. On 28 December, it went past the moon. On 24 January, it fired its thrusters for five minutes and settled into its final orbit about 1.5m km from Earth. On 12 July, after months of painstaking setup, i... | Cosmology & The Universe |
A camera built to uncover dark energy in the universe has captured a stunning new image of a star-forming region nicknamed 'Lobster Nebula'. The impressive image shows a region 400 light-years across, with scattered stars intertwined with dust and clouds. The centre shows what astronomers call an open star cluster, a n... | Cosmology & The Universe |
The first images from the Euclid space telescope have been revealed, and they are stunning.
The European Space Agency (ESA) telescope, which launched on July 1 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, is designed to explore the composition and evolution of the "dark universe" — the collective name given to dark matter and dark ene... | Cosmology & The Universe |
We’re part of an international team of astronomers who have carried out the biggest ever computer simulations from the Big Bang to the present day to investigate how the Universe evolved.
The FLAMINGO simulations calculate the evolution of all the components of the Universe – ordinary matter, like stars and planets, da... | Cosmology & The Universe |
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First look: the James Webb Space Telescope’s first “deep field” image was released today at a special event at the White House (Courtesy: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI) US president Joe Biden has unveiled the first spectacular full-colour science image from the $10bn James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
The image, known as “... | Cosmology & The Universe |
There is a galaxy spinning like a record in the early universe — far earlier than any others have been seen twirling around. Astronomers have spotted signs of rotation in the galaxy MACS1149-JD1, JD1 for short, which sits so far away that its light takes 13.3 billion years to reach Earth. “The galaxy we analyzed, JD1... | Cosmology & The Universe |
The Big Bang Hypothesis - which states the universe has been expanding since it began 14 billion years ago in a hot and dense state - is contradicted by the new James Webb Space Telescope images, writes Eric Lerner.To everyone who sees them, the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images of the cosmos are beautifully... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — In early human history, caves provided people with protection from the elements and a place to call home. Now, similar formations on the moon could provide pioneering ... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Scientists have made one of the most precise maps of the universe's matter, and it shows that something may be missing in our best model of the cosmos.
Created by pooling data from two telescopes that observe different types of light, the new map revealed that the universe is less "clumpy" than previous models predicte... | Cosmology & The Universe |
When it comes to the biggest questions about the cosmos, physicists tend to either shy away from them or assert theories that have no real empirical backing. The Big Bang is a good example – a creation myth that physics will probably never be able to show is true. But these theories are also not simply equivalent to re... | Cosmology & The Universe |
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Lifes-little-mysteries In this illustration, the supermassive black hole at the center is surrounded by matter flowing onto the black hole in what is termed an accretion disk.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Black holes are cosmic vacuum cleaners — massive objects so large that not even light can escape them... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Astronomers have detected a strange and persistent "heartbeat" radio signal coming from a far-off galaxy.It has been classified as a fast radio burst (FRB), but where such signals are normally intensely strong emissions of radio waves of unknown origin - that typically last a few milliseconds at most - this one is diff... | Cosmology & The Universe |
Ultra-relativistic neutrinos blasted into space during gamma-ray bursts are slowed down by the effects of quantum gravity. That is the conclusion of physicists in Italy, Poland and Norway, who have spotted seven neutrinos that arrived on Earth later than expected, compared to their companion gamma rays.
Quantum theory ... | Cosmology & The Universe |
A cluster of young stars resembles an aerial burst, surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust, in a nebula NGC 3603 located in the constellation Carina, in this image captured in August 2009 and December 2009, and obtained September 26, 2018. NASA/ESA/R. O'Connell/F. Paresce/E. Young/Ames Research Center/WFC3 S... | Cosmology & The Universe |
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