Tag: Space
NASA’s new experimental antenna tracks deep space laser
Capable of receiving both radio frequency and optical signals, the DSN’s hybrid antenna has tracked and decoded the downlink laser from DSOC, aboard [...]
Webb depicts staggering 19 nearby spiral galaxies
It’s oh-so-easy to be absolutely mesmerized by these spiral galaxies. Follow their clearly defined arms, which are brimming with stars, to their cent [...]
NASA ends Ingenuity helicopter mission in Mars
After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission on the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and [...]
Webb finds signs of aurorae on brown dwarf
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a brown dwarf (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller than a star) with infra [...]
Webb shows early galaxies in odd shapes
Researchers using Webb found that many distant galaxies have flattened oval disk and tube-like shapes, not spiral or elliptical structures.
Webb h [...]
Hubble catches a vast galactic neighborhood
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features a richness of spiral galaxies:
The large, prominent spiral galaxy on the right side [...]
Hubble sights a galaxy with ‘Forbidden’ light
This whirling image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG-01-24-014, which is located about 275 million light-years from Earth.
In addition [...]
Juno takes a closer look at Io
The orbiter has performed 56 flybys of Jupiter and documented close encounters with three of the gas giant’s four largest moons.
NASA’s Juno spac [...]
NASA captures large Magellanic fireworks
Resembling sparks from a fireworks display, this image taken by a JPL camera onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows delicate filaments that are [...]
Webb updates image of ringed planet Uranus
When Voyager 2 flew past Uranus in 1986, the planet appeared to be a nearly featureless, solid blue ball. Now, Webb shows us an infrared view that is [...]