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Astronomy Mar 11, 2024

Webb peers into the tendrils of NGC 604

Two new images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) showcase the star-forming region NGC 604, located in the Triangulum galaxy (M33), 2.73 million ...

Optics & Photonics Jan 30, 2024

A faster, more efficient imaging system for nanoparticles

Researchers have developed a new system for imaging nanoparticles. It consists of a high-precision, short-wave infrared imaging technique capable of capturing the photoluminescence lifetimes of rare-earth doped nanoparticles ...

Planetary Sciences Jan 25, 2024

Asteroid 2024 BX1 spotted three hours before impact

It was at 22:48 CET on Saturday 20 January when veteran asteroid hunter Sárneczky discovered a new asteroid using the 60 cm Schmidt Telescope at Piszkéstető Mountain Station, part of Konkoly Observatory in Hungary.

Plants & Animals Jan 17, 2024

AI-enabled bio-loggers capture rare bird behavior

For centuries, naturalists have braved trackless forests, windy clifftops, and the cramped confines of blinds and submarines, hoping to capture rare behaviors that might reveal important aspects of animal biology and ecology. ...

Space Exploration Nov 20, 2023

NASA's 'flawless' heat shield demo passes the test

A little more than a year ago, a NASA flight test article came screaming back from space at more than 18,000 mph, reaching temperatures of nearly 2,700°F before gently splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. At that moment, ...

Astronomy Oct 19, 2023

This dark nebula hides an enormous star

The birth of a star is a spectacular event that plays out behind a veil of gas and dust. It's a detailed process that takes millions of years to play out. Once a star leaves its protostar stage behind and begins its life ...

Optics & Photonics Aug 31, 2023

Technology using all-optical mechanisms has potential to record actions that last a femtosecond

Imagine an action that occurs within a femtosecond, or one-quadrillionth of a second: atomic transitions, charge transfers and dynamics, biochemical processes. Now imagine being able to record that action so it can be studied ...

Astronomy Jul 15, 2023

Image: Hubble views a galactic monster

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a monster in the making in this observation of the exceptional galaxy cluster eMACS J1353.7+4329, which lies about eight billion light-years from Earth in the constellation ...

Space Exploration Jul 13, 2023

Preventing traffic accidents to the moon and back

With dozens of missions headed to the space between Earth and the moon over the next 10 years, there's bound to be traffic.

Planetary Sciences Jun 30, 2023

NASA's HiRISE camera recently imaged a Martian dust devil. But why study them?

NASA recently used its powerful High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to take a breathtaking image of a dust devil traversing Syria Planum on Mars. One unique aspect of ...

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