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First research flight images from innovative balloon-borne telescope

Apr 21, 2023 (SPX)

SuperBIT has already taken its first images on this flight, showing the "Tarantula Nebula" - a neighbourhood of the Large Magellanic Cloud where new stars are b...

SuperBIT balloon telescope releases 1st research images

Apr 21, 2023 (SPX)

The advantage of balloon-based versus space telescopes is the reduced cost of not having to launch a large telescope on a rocket. A super pressure balloon can c...

Goddard team builds, tests calibrator for NASA's Roman Telescope in record time

Apr 20, 2023 (SPX)

"Without this calibration tool, we wouldn't be able to gather accurate enough measurements to achieve the next-level science Roman is designed to do," said Josh...

Metal-poor stars are more life-friendly

Apr 20, 2023 (SPX)

Crucial to this is the intensity of the ultraviolet light that the star emits into space, in different wavelength ranges. The study provides scientists searchin...

Building telescopes on the Moon would transform astronomy

Apr 20, 2023 (SPX)

There are various reasons for all this activity, including geopolitical posturing and the search for lunar resources, such as water-ice at the lunar poles, whic...

NASA marks Hubble's 33rd anniversary with detailed star-formation image

Apr 20, 2023 (UPI)

"Hubble's colorful view showcased through its unique capability to obtain images from ultraviolet to near-infrared light unveils an effervescent cauldron of glo...

Will the Earth last forever

Apr 18, 2023 (SPX)

Before we talk about the future of our planet, let's review its history and when life appeared on it. The history of human beings is very, very short compared w...

Mapping dark matter like never before

Apr 18, 2023 (SPX)

The research that led to the image, completed by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, also provides further support to Einstein's theory of gene...

Exceeding 20 Million: LAMOST Releases Its DR10 Data

Apr 12, 2023 (SPX)

The DR10 dataset is a collection of the spectra obtained by LAMOST from October 2011 to June 2022. The released 22.29 million spectra include 11.81 million low-...

NASA study helps explain limit-breaking ultra-luminous x-ray sources

Apr 11, 2023 (JPL)

Exotic cosmic objects known as ultra-luminous X-ray sources produce about 10 million times more energy than the Sun. They're so radiant, in fact, that they appe...

The Sun is a normal star after all

Apr 10, 2023 (SPX)

Although it might sound strange to question if the Sun is a sun-like star, Angela Santos, a researcher on IA's "Towards a comprehensive study of stars" team at ...

Webb reveals never-before-seen details in Cassiopeia A

Apr 07, 2023 (SPX)

The explosion of a star is a dramatic event, but the remains the star leaves behind can be even more dramatic. A new mid-infrared image from NASA's James Webb S...

Historic nebula seen like never before with NASA's IXPE

Apr 07, 2023 (SPX)

"What makes science so beautiful and exciting is that for those few moments, you're seeing something that no one has ever seen before," said Weisskopf, now an e...

Twinkling stars fuel interstellar dust

Apr 07, 2023 (SPX)

You've probably heard of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) which has been in the news lately. It's famous for being the largest and most sensitive space tel...

Integral's 'new safe mode' activates for the first time

Apr 06, 2023 (ESA)

However, the spacecraft's original 'safe mode' - the system that kicks in to switch off scientific instruments and rotate it to face the Sun to ensure its solar...

New membrane mirrors for large space-based telescopes

Apr 06, 2023 (SPX)

"Launching and deploying space telescopes is a complicated and costly procedure," says Sebastian Rabien from the MPE. "This new approach - which is very differe...

Using the dark matter distribution to test our cosmological model

Apr 06, 2023 (SPX)

The standard model of our Universe is defined by only a handful of numbers: the expansion rate of the Universe, a measure of how clumpy the dark matter is (S8),...

Hubble unexpectedly finds double quasar in distant universe

Apr 06, 2023 (SPX)

Quasars are bright objects powered by voracious, supermassive black holes blasting out ferocious fountains of energy as they engorge themselves on gas, dust, an...

Webb telescope discovers oldest galaxies ever observed

Apr 04, 2023 (AFP)

The Webb telescope has unleashed a torrent of scientific discovery since becoming operational last year, peering farther than ever before into the universe's di...

Scientists observe flattest explosion ever seen in space

Mar 31, 2023 (SPX)

The explosion observed was a bright Fast Blue Optical Transient (FBOT) - an extremely rare class of explosion which is much less common than other explosions, s...