A Deep-Sea Telescope Just Detected the Most Energetic Ghost Particle Ever
PeV — has been detected by the underwater KM3NeT telescope, marking a pivotal moment in astrophysics. This tiny but powerful ...
NASA’s Webb Just Found Something Unexpected Beyond Neptune
Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
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NASA rover discovers liquid water 'ripples' carved into Mars rock — and it could rewrite the Red Planet's history
NASA's Curiosity rover photographed remnants of rippling waves in an ancient Martian lakebed, proving that the Red Planet had ...
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Listen to the universe: How sonification turns data into sound
A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.
10 new images of galaxies shared by NASA
The elliptical galaxy NGC 4660 is one of a hundred galaxies imaged by Hubble that are members of the nearest large galaxy cluster to Earth, the Virgo Cluster. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has ...
7 stunning images of cosmology by NASA
The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) captures a tiny patch of sky in the Fornax constellation, revealing thousands of galaxies, some over 13 billion years old. This Hubble image captures HH111, a rare ...