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Chandra and Hubble tune into ‘flame-throwing’ Guitar Nebula (Image Credit: Phys.org) Outline of the guitar shape in the X-ray and optical image. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./M. de Vries et al.; Optical: (Hubble) NASA/ESA/STScI and (Palomar) Hale Telescope/Palomar/CalTech; Illustrated outline: NASA/CXC/K. DiVona; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare Normally found only in heavy metal bands […]
Many physicists argue the universe is fine-tuned for life. Our findings question this idea (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Physicists have long grappled with the question of why the universe was able to support the evolution of intelligent life. The values of the many forces and particles, represented by some […]
Researchers find plausibility for sun-like stars around black holes, long believed to be impossible (Image Credit: Phys.org) Illustration of star remnants after it is shredded by a supermassive black hole. Credit: NASA Buried in the treasure trove of the Gaia catalog were two strange black hole systems. These were black holes orbiting […]
Researchers probe ancient wood for clues about massive solar storms (Image Credit: Phys.org) A solar flare erupts from the sun’s surface in this image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory in 2012. On rare occasions, much more extreme solar storms affect the Earth in a way that if they happened today, they […]
James Webb Space Telescope spots 1st ‘Einstein zig-zag’ — here’s why scientists are thrilled (Image Credit: Space.com) Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first “Einstein zig-zag,” an image of one quasar repeated six times in a single image. The arrangement was created thanks to an effect first proposed […]
Egg-shaped galaxies may be aligned to the black holes at their hearts, astronomers find (Image Credit: Space.com) Black holes don’t have many identifying features. They come in one color (black) and one shape (spherical). The main difference between black holes is mass: some weigh about as much as a star like our […]
First Detailed Image of a Star Outside Our Galaxy Is Out of This World (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) 160,000 light-years away, a star 2,000 times the mass of the Sun is dying. Now, that star has been imaged as never before—extremely up-close—revealing details of the star’s activity and surrounding structure. The recent image […]
Russian Soyuz rocket launches supplies to ISS on 90th Progress cargo spacecraft (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) A Russian cargo spacecraft launched toward the space station on Thursday morning (Nov. 21). A Soyuz rocket launched the uncrewed Progress 90 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Thursday from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at7:22 […]
Star imaged in detail outside the Milky Way for the 1st time (image, video) (Image Credit: Space.com) Astronomers have captured a “zoomed-in” image of a star outside the Milky Way for the first time. The team brought the vast red supergiant star designated WOH G64 into focus using the Very Large Telescope […]
What’s next for SpaceX’s Starship after its successful 6th test flight? (Image Credit: Space.com) The biggest and most powerful rocket ever built now has six test flights under its belt — and it’s just getting started. SpaceX launched its 400-foot-tall (122-meter-tall) Starship megarocket for the sixth time ever on Tuesday (Nov. 19), […]
