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The Nikon Z7 II is brilliant for astrophotography and it now has a huge $1003 saving in this Black Friday camera deal (Image Credit: Space.com) Amazon has dropped the Nikon Z7 II mirrorless camera to one of its lowest-ever prices in this incredible Black Friday deal. It comes bundled with the FTZ […]
Astronauts Unpack Cargo From Stinky Russian Spacecraft, Despite Troubling Odor (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) The hatch between a Russian cargo ship and the International Space Station (ISS) is finally open after a foul stench initially prompted astronauts to seal it off. The good news is, the smell has not lingered and NASA may […]
Webb observations explore the Westerlund 1 star cluster (Image Credit: Phys.org) RGB NIRCam image of Westerlund 1. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.13051 An international team of astronomers has employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a supermassive Galactic open cluster known as Westerlund 1. Results of the observational campaign, presented […]
Investigating how the biggest galaxies in the cosmos grew so quickly before dying (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Astronomers are closer than ever to working out how the biggest galaxies in the cosmos grew so quickly before dying. The formation of galaxies in the universe should follow a fairly simple […]
Northern lights may be faintly visible across parts of the US this Thanksgiving (Image Credit: Phys.org) The northern lights appear over Anchorage, Alaska, early the morning of Friday, Oct.. 11, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File This Thanksgiving, solar storms may produce faint auroras across the northern rim of the United States. […]
An improved quantification of the intergalactic medium and cosmic filaments (Image Credit: Phys.org) Smoothed 0.3–1.2 keV eROSITA count rate map of the analysis footprint. The missing pixels show source-masked regions. Credit: Astronomy & Astrophysics (2024). DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450933 Much of the mass in the universe lies not in stars or galaxies, but in […]
Scientists reveal possible role of iron sulfides in creating life in terrestrial hot springs (Image Credit: Phys.org) Scanning transmission electron microscopy reveals characteristics of the iron sulfide (mackinawite) catalyst. Credit: NIGPAS An international team of scientists has published a study highlighting the potential role of iron sulfides in the formation of life […]
Astronomers investigate the evolution of a supersoft X-ray source (Image Credit: Phys.org) Optical monitoring of RX J0513.9−6951. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.14273 Using ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite and NASA’s Chandra spacecraft, German astronomers have observed a supersoft X-ray source designated RX J0513.9−6951. Results of the observations, published on the arXiv preprint server, shed […]
Happy Thanksgiving from space! What Turkey Day dinner looks like for NASA astronauts on ISS (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) The four NASA astronauts currently living on the International Space Station (ISS) just wished all of us all a happy Thanksgiving. Nick Hague, Don Pettit, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have beamed home […]
2 space telescope designs will battle it out to become NASA’s next cosmic imager (Image Credit: Space.com) The teams behind two potential new space telescopes have embarked on their final design studies as they go head-to-head to see which will be the first of NASA’s new “Probe” class of mission. PRIMA, the […]
