Tag: science
Webb finds plethora of carbon molecules around young star
An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study the disk of gas and dust around a young, very low-mass star, [...]
Hubble captures a bright spiral ‘in the Queen’s Hair’
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the jewel-bright spiral galaxy NGC 4689, which lies 54 million light-years from Earth in the constel [...]
Crows with counting skills only seen in people
The corvids are the first animals other than humans known to produce a deliberate number of calls on command. Crows know their numbers. An experiment [...]
Galaxy forming in early universe caught by Webb
Researchers analyzing data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed three galaxies that may be actively forming when the universe was o [...]
Hubble captures dawn of a sun-like star
Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula in the new image from NASA [...]
Universe’s expansion rate, puzzle persists
Webb measurements shed new light on a decade-long mystery.
One of the three scientific justifications to the U.S. Congress for building the Hubble [...]
Webb captures iconic Horsehead nebula in unprecedented detail
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of a zoomed-in portion of one of the most distinctive objects in [...]
A new ‘portable’ atomic clock
An iodine atomic clock keeps ultra-precise time aboard a rocking naval ship.
The best timepieces tend to be fragile, but a device based on iodine [...]
Milky Way’s monstruous black hole sleeping close to Earth
The Milky Way has a big newfound black hole, and it lurks close to Earth! This sleeping giant was discovered with the European space telescope Gaia, [...]
NASA affirms, universe keeps expanding
Webb measurements shed new light on a decade-long mystery. NASA's telescopes Webb and Hubble confirm universe's expansion rate, while the puzzle pers [...]