NASA said Friday the first cosmic images from the James Webb Space Telescope will include unprecedented views of distant galaxies, bright nebulae, and a faraway giant gas planet.
Astronomy
Jul 8, 2022
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NASA has a provided a tantalizing teaser photo ahead of the highly-anticipated release next week of the first deep-space images from the James Webb Telescope—an instrument so powerful it can peer back into the origins of ...
Astronomy
Jul 7, 2022
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An international team of astronomers used a database combining observations from the best telescopes in the world, including the Subaru Telescope, to detect the signal from the active supermassive black holes of dying galaxies ...
Astronomy
May 27, 2022
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 32nd birthday with a stunning look at an unusual close-knit collection of five galaxies, called the Hickson Compact Group 40. This snapshot reflects a special moment ...
Astronomy
Apr 19, 2022
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Scientists have calculated the mass range for Dark Matter—and it's tighter than the science world thought.
General Physics
Jan 27, 2021
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Within modern cosmology, the Big Bang marks the beginning of the universe and the creation of matter, space and time about 13.8 billion years ago. Since then, the visible structures of the cosmos have developed: billions ...
Astronomy
Oct 21, 2015
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(Phys.org) —An international team of researchers, including University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomer Brent Tully, has mapped the motions of structures of the nearby universe in greater detail than ever before. The maps ...
Astronomy
Jun 12, 2013
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A successful measurement of the distribution of quarks that make up protons conducted at DOE's Jefferson Lab has found that a quark's spin can predict its general location inside the proton. Quarks with spin pointed in the ...
General Physics
Apr 2, 2013
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(Phys.org)—You may think you've heard everything you need to know about the origin of mass. After all, scientists colliding protons at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe recently presented stunning evidence strongly ...
General Physics
Aug 27, 2012
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Dark matter, the mysterious stuff thought to make up about 80 percent of matter in the universe, has become even more inscrutable.
General Physics
Dec 6, 2011
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