Astronomy

How a NASA Scientist Searches for Water on Jupiter in the Great Red Spot’s Depths

How a NASA Scientist Searches for Water on Jupiter in the Great Red Spot’s Depths

Scientists have been attempting to comprehend the composition of Jupiter for millennia. It makes sense given that this enigmatic planet is chemically the Sun’s closest…
First Convincing Proof of a Moon outside Our Solar System Discovered by Astronomers

First Convincing Proof of a Moon outside Our Solar System Discovered by Astronomers

With the aid of NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, two astronomers from Columbia University have compiled convincing proof of the presence of a moon…
Recently Acquired Former King of Kepler-88 Planetary System Deposed by Exoplanet

Recently Acquired Former King of Kepler-88 Planetary System Deposed by Exoplanet

King of our solar system. The planet Jupiter, which bears the name of the most potent deity in the Greek pantheon, has dominated the other…
A Dwarf Galaxy’s Gamma Rays Solve an Astronomical Mystery

A Dwarf Galaxy’s Gamma Rays Solve an Astronomical Mystery

Since its discovery in 2012, astronomers have been perplexed by a glowing blob known as “the cocoon,” which appears to be inside one of the…
Potential Cause of the Huge Ring-Like Structure on Ganymede’s Surface

Potential Cause of the Huge Ring-Like Structure on Ganymede’s Surface

A thorough reanalysis of the image data from the Voyager 1, 2, and Galileo spacecraft was carried out by scientists from Kobe University and the…
Theories of How Planets form are Put to the Test by a Puzzling Six-Exoplanet System with Rhythmic Movement

Theories of How Planets form are Put to the Test by a Puzzling Six-Exoplanet System with Rhythmic Movement

A system of six exoplanets has been discovered by scientists using a variety of telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory…
A Spiral Galaxy’s Deep Hidden Structures Are Captured By A New JWST Image

A Spiral Galaxy’s Deep Hidden Structures Are Captured By A New JWST Image

New images of the spiral galaxy IC 5332 have been acquired by the two space telescope heavyweights, Hubble and JWST. JWST is able to expose…
Super-Bright Stellar Explosion Likely Black Hole or Neutron Star Birth from Dying Star

Super-Bright Stellar Explosion Likely Black Hole or Neutron Star Birth from Dying Star

In June 2018, a spectacular blue flash from a spiral arm of a galaxy 200 million light years away was detected by telescopes all across…
Spiraling Stars Discovered by Hubble, Providing a Window into the Early Universe

Spiraling Stars Discovered by Hubble, Providing a Window into the Early Universe

Stars are the machines that shape the universe, but scientists still don’t understand how they form. Researchers turned to the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite…
NASA Plans to Launch the PUNCH Mission in 2025

NASA Plans to Launch the PUNCH Mission in 2025

More than 60 engineers and scientists are gathering at Southwest Research Institute Aug. 23-24 to kick off the launch vehicle collaboration for NASA’s Polarimeter to…
‘Intruder’ Caught Redhanded by ALMA in Rarely Detected Stellar Flyby Event

‘Intruder’ Caught Redhanded by ALMA in Rarely Detected Stellar Flyby Event

Researchers utilizing the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) made a rare identification of a probable stellar…
History of Earth’s Rotation is shown through Byzantine Solar Eclipse Records

History of Earth’s Rotation is shown through Byzantine Solar Eclipse Records

To improve understanding of the variation of Earth’s rotation in the 4th-7th centuries CE, a research team analyzed Byzantine records from this period to identify…
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