The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which was launched last December, has been progressively powering up its instruments and unfurling its sun shield, and is now aligning its mirrors in preparation for operation. Within a few months, the most powerful … Read More
If you had to pick Saturn out of a crowd, you’d most likely recognize it by its iconic rings. They are our solar system’s largest and brightest rings. Extending over 280,000 kilometers from the planet and wide enough to fit … Read More
With its incredible beauty, a time-lapse of Jupiter’s moons Europa and Io orbiting the gas giant has recently gone viral on the Internet. Because the time-lapse is so amazing, many users have claimed that it isn’t real. While it’s important … Read More
A new telescope designed to peer into the twisted X-ray Universe has just returned its first imaging data. The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a NASA-Italy Space Agency collaboration, focused its attention on one of the Milky Way’s most famous … Read More
For the first time, scientists observed a star being swallowed up by a black hole, and then watched as some of the star’s matter was ejected back out as a flare of plasma moving at nearly the speed of light … Read More
The James Webb Space Telescope has seen its first star (though not quite tonight) – and even taken a selfie, NASA announced on Friday. The steps are part of a months-long process of aligning the observatory’s massive golden mirror, which … Read More