A space walking robot could build a giant telescope in space
The Hubble Space Telescope was carried to space inside the space shuttle Discovery and then released into low-Earth orbit.
'Ridiculously smooth': James Webb telescope spies unusual pancake-like disk around nearby star Vega — and scientists can't explain it
The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...
This black hole just did something theoretically impossible
Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...
James Webb Space Telescope: Breathtaking 'Face-On' Views Of 19 Spiral Galaxies
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," ...
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5 beautiful images of distant galaxies captured by NASA James Webb Space Telescope
With highly capable instruments James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was able to capture the image of a distant galaxy. Arp 107: ...
Pancakes in space? James Webb Telescope discovers Vega’s unexplainable cosmic flatness
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a remarkably smooth, 'pancake-like' disk of debris surrounding the star ...
The Blue Marvel: NASA’s Voyager 2 captured this image of Neptune in the summer of 1989 as it became the first spacecraft to fly by the planet. Neptune's blue color comes from ...
Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.
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NASA defends selection of astrophysics probe mission proposals
NASA defended the selection of two concepts for study as the agency’s first astrophysics probe-class mission amid community complaints that the two missions are not on an equal footing.
James Webb Telescope discovers monster black hole consuming matter 40 times faster than anything thought possible
Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy that is consuming matter at an extraordinary rate, surpassing the theoretical Eddington limit by more than 40 times.
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There's Something Impossible About This Ravenous Black Hole, Scientists Say
Astronomers have spotted a black hole that dates back to just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, which is gobbling up matter at an astonishing rate. According to their calculations, the black hole ...
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We Finally Know What Switched on The Lights at The Dawn of Time
According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying ... this crucial time in ...
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'Hawking radiation' may be erasing black holes. Watching it happen could reveal new physics.
Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...