NASA's Webb Peers Into the Extreme Outer Galaxy Sep. 12, 2024 — Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this ...

Using ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers have serendipitously discovered a new open cluster in the Milky Way galaxy. The newfound cluster, which received the designation Ash-1, is relatively young ...

The universe is huge, yet astronomers have looked at a few parts of the night sky over and over again. For example, many telescopes—from the Hubble Space Telescope to JWST and beyond—have ...

The new result can help ... Sep. 16, 2024 — Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope to confirm that supermassive black holes can starve their host galaxies of the fuel they ...

No known astronomical processes could have produced such an emission, and astronomer Jerry Ehman, who worked at the… Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up to ...

By David W. Brown Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more top down than bottom up. By Katrina Miller The ...

TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Recap: Back in 1977, a unique radio signal from deep space got astronomers all riled up about the possibility of first contact with ...

Related: Wild solar weather is causing satellites to plummet from orbit As of August 2024, there are 6,350 Starlink satellites in orbit, of which 6,290 are working, according to Astronomer ...

Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss Astronomers have precisely measured the feeding schedule of a supermassive black hole nearly one billion light-years from Earth, giving the team an estimate for ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed a nearby spiral galaxy known as NGC 891. Results of the observational campaign, published August 15 ...

Chandra has the most resolving power of any X-ray telescope ever built, and for 25 years has provided astronomers with penetrating views of the invisible universe, including stellar explosions ...