Against an inky black backdrop, the blue swirls of spiral galaxy NGC 6956 stand out radiantly. NGC 6956 is a barred spiral galaxy, a common type of spiral galaxy with a bar-shaped structure of stars in its center. This galaxy ...
Astronomy
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Scientists taking a "deep dive" into one of Webb's iconic first images have discovered dozens of energetic jets and outflows from young stars previously hidden by dust clouds. The discovery marks the beginning of a new era ...
Astronomy
Dec 15, 2022
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Using the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), an international team of astronomers have observed the dwarf galaxy HIPASS J1131–31, dubbed the "Peekabo Galaxy." The observational ...
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have inspected the globular cluster NGC 2808. Results of the study, published December 2 on the arXiv pre-print repository, shed more ...
Dark matter could be made up of ultralight dark photons that heated up our universe: this is a new scenario proposed in a study recently published in Physical Review Letters. This hypothesis, the authors say, is in excellent ...
General Physics
Dec 12, 2022
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An international team of astronomers has used data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to report the discovery of the earliest galaxies confirmed to date. The light from these galaxies has taken more than 13.4 billion ...
Astronomy
Dec 9, 2022
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Imagine walking into a room at night, turning out all the lights and closing the shades. Yet an eerie glow comes from the walls, ceiling, and floor. The faint light is barely enough to see your hands before your face, but ...
Astronomy
Dec 8, 2022
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In 1916, Einstein finished his theory of general relativity, which describes how gravitational forces alter the curvature of spacetime. Among other things, this theory predicted that the universe is expanding, which was confirmed ...
Astronomy
Dec 8, 2022
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It's been over 35 years since a spacecraft visited Uranus and Neptune. That was Voyager 2, and it only did flybys. Will we ever go back? There are discoveries waiting to be made on these fascinating ice giants and their moons.
Space Exploration
Dec 7, 2022
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The Hubble Space Telescope, to which we owe our current estimates for the age of the universe and the first detection of organic matter on an exoplanet, is very much doing science and still alive. It's latest masterpiece ...
Astronomy
Dec 7, 2022
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