4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (273+ words) This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month takes us to a fantastical realm within our home galaxy, where piercing starlight and billowing winds sculpt dust clouds into inventive shapes. This scene is from the Carina…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (196+ words) The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of NGC 2392 (also known as the Lion Nebula), which Hubble previously imaged in 2000....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (684+ words) A new composite image combining data from Chandra, Hubble, Webb and the retired Spitzer telescope has helped astronomers solve a long standing puzzle in the Tarantula Nebula, a star forming region 160,000 light years away. Young, massive stars there should be…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (264+ words) To be clear, the proposal, which is called the Interworld Slingshot, isn’t just a fancy Raman spectroscopy instrument - it’s an entire mission architecture. It envisions a 300-kg spacecraft, which would be roughly the size of a household refrigerator when packed up…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (97+ words) Time on a large professional telescope is one of the scarcest resources in science. Astronomers wait months for a few hours, and every one of those hours is a running argument with the weather, the Moon and the atmosphere. Point…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (111+ words) We have been watching asteroid (44) Nysa for well over a century without ever really knowing what it looks like. Now the sharpest images ever taken of it, from two of the largest telescopes on Earth, have revealed two deep valleys…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (282+ words) Where will you be on August 12th? Many an eclipse chaser and the ‘eclipse curious’ will make the journey to stand in the Moon’s shadow on that fast-approaching Wednesday date. This unique eclipse sees the pencil-thin shadow of our Moon curl…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (120+ words) We’ve been covering the journey of the Habitable Worlds Observatory for some time now. Over the past few years, it's gone from a proposal to a relatively fleshed-out plan for how and what the next Great Observatory should do—in…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (173+ words) Instead, they would rely on robust, mass producible lasers firing longer pulses. Typically, they envision them being in the micro- to milli-second range, simply to keep data transfer at a reasonable pace across the light years. However, there is a…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (116+ words) Astronomers have found four new white dwarfs within about 65 light years. Even though the sky has been studied thoroughly, these escaped detection. That's because they're tight binaries with red dwarf partners, and the much brighter red dwarfs hide the white…...