Pillars of Creation are depicted in a stunning new photograph by the Webb Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a brand new image of the Pillars of Creation, a star-forming region within the Eagle Nebula that contains dense pillars of cosmic…
Discovery of Hipparchus’ star map predict the locations of planet and stars on the future
A trio of researchers from CNRS, UMR, Tyndale House and Sorbonne Université, respectively, have found what might be the famous Hipparchus’s map of the stars. In their…
Look up to the Sky from October 14 to October 21
Sunday, October 16The waxing gibbous Moon makes a great early-morning target for a telescope today, as several round, prominent craters sit along the terminator near the north…
‘Mind-blowing’ velocity of a superhot gas glob observed around the Milky Way’s black hole
Astronomers have detected a blob of hot gas whizzing around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy at an extraordinary speed. A powerful magnetic field surrounding…
Mars’ buried “lakes” could instead be frozen dirt
Bright reflections that radar detected beneath the south pole of Mars may not be underground lakes as previously thought but deposits of clay instead, a new study finds. For…
The rules of physics seem to be broken by an energy jet traveling at 7 times the speed of light
Astronomers have detected a gargantuan blast of energy from space that appears to be doing the impossible: Traveling seven times faster than the speed of light. This…
Can an asteroid wipe out the Earth?
After dominating the Earth for more than 160 million years, the dinosaurs finally met their doom thanks to a visitor from space. Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid measuring at…
The full Snow’s Moon could outshine a ‘dragon’ meteor shower on Nov.8, is that right?
On Oct. 9, the full Hunter’s Moon rose once again, reaching peak illumination at approximately 4:54 p.m. ET (8:54 p.m. UTC). As with all full moons, the…
The secret behind the galactic, whether or not the black hole swallows ancient stars there
During the Milky Way’s roughly 13.6-billion-year history, billions of stars have formed, grown and ultimately died in spectacular supernova explosions. So, where are all of their corpses…
How do we know about the danger of exploding stars?
A newly devised ‘early warning system’ could help warn astronomers when a massive star is about to explode and end its life in a supernova. As supernovas…