Although the galaxy appears featureless and boring at first glance, the Hubble Space Telescope’s observational data of elliptical galaxy Messier 105 shows that the stars inside its galactic center are moving very swiftly. Astronomers suggest that these stars are orbiting around a supermassive black hole with a mass estimated to be 200 million suns. The […]
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Our understanding of how galaxies form and the nature of dark matter could be upside down thanks to observations of a stellar population bigger than the Milky Way from more than 11 billion- years ago that should not exist. A study published today in Nature using new data from the James Webb Space Telescope discovers
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NASA’s Webb captured a marvelous image of Uranus showing its inner and outer dim rings(including the extremely diffuse dim ring the Zeta Ring) and many of its moons during December 2023. This image is a two-colored version that shows atmospheric details of the planets such as a seasonal north polar cap and storms. This new
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This Hubble image shows a massive cluster of shiny bright galaxies identified as galaxy cluster Abell 3192. This galaxy Cluster is filled with hot gas that produces powerful X-rays, and it’s covered in a halo of dark matter. All of the unseen material thus the amount of galaxies seen in this image makes the galaxy
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This image shows a tightly packed globular cluster called NGC 2210, which is located about 160,000 light-years away within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The Large Magellanic Cloud and Milky Way are gravitationally attached. Globular Clusters are a stable, tightly attached group of stars that contain thousands to millions of old stars. Globular clusters are
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Research by Oxford University is the first of its kind to study tiny dust molecules in the central active regions of active galaxies by the use of early observations captured by NASA’s Webb. The research is the first U.K.-led paper to use spectroscopic data from JWST’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) and addresses one of the biggest
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Citizen scientists have shared unique insights into the close flyby of Europa by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft. Thanks to processing raw images captured by JunoCam, the spacecraft’s public-engagement camera, members of the general public have created deep-space portraits of Europa that are indeed worthy of further scientific examination. According to Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton, Juno
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The James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) has concluded its post-launch preparations and is now prepared to do science. The last MIRI mode to be approved was its coronographic imaging capability, which uses two different designs of masks to block off light from a star to make observations of the star’s orbiting planets. These
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One of NASA’s Webb’s four main scientific instruments, specifically the Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph instrument (NIRISS) is now ready to perform science. According to NASA, the last mode of the NIRISS to be completed before the instrument was confirmed ready to start its scientific operations was the Single Object Slitless Spectroscopy (SOSS) capability. The
The Hubble Space Telescope captures this inspiring image of a massive galaxy cluster named Abell 1351 with its Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Survey. Abell 1531 is located more than 4 billion light-years away and lies within the northern constellation, Ursa Major. The image is filled with light streaks that are actual
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