Tag: Space
Most massive black hole merger ever detected
Scientists have detected the most massive merger of black holes ever. This titanic collision, "heard" in ripples in spacetime called gravitational wa [...]
Webb scratches beyond surface of Cat’s Paw
It’s the cat’s meow! To celebrate its third year of revealing stunning scenes of the cosmos in infrared light, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has [...]
‘Fossil galaxies are the dinosaurs of the universe’
Astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy that is a "cosmic fossil" which has remained "frozen in time" for billions of years.
Just as din [...]
Ringed planets, more than mere decoration
Though we think of rings as being decorative elements of a planet, they are active, dynamic structures.
For centuries Saturn was famous as our sol [...]
Webb can see the early universe
When astronomers use a telescope to look farther away, they are also looking back in time.
When we look out into the universe, we see a variety of [...]
Astronomers locate universe’s ‘missing’ matter
Astronomers have discovered a vast tendril of hot gas linking four galaxy clusters and stretching out for 23 million light-years, 230 times the lengt [...]
Webb captures frigid world on bizarre orbit
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has notched another milestone, capturing a direct image of a distant, frigid planet in a solar system unlike ou [...]
Webb offers new look at Sombrero Galaxy’s Disk
After capturing an image of the iconic Sombrero galaxy at mid-infrared wavelengths in late 2024, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has now followed u [...]
Miguel Alcubierre comes to Leon
The Division of Sciences and Engineering of the University of Guanajuato, Leon Campus, in collaboration with the Secretary of Culture of Guanajuato a [...]
Titan Forecast: Partly Cloudy, Methane Showers
Saturn’s moon Titan is an intriguing world cloaked in a yellowish, smoggy haze. Similar to Earth, the atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and has weather, [...]