The first full-color images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will be released in less than a week, but how does the observatory find and lock onto its targets? Webb’s Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) was designed with this question in … Read More
A group of scientists obtained a stunning image of a distant galaxy, reminding us all how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things.This ‘monster galaxy’ is approximately 12 billion light-years from Earth and generates new stars 1,000 times … Read More
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which is currently pointing at the skies from its home in the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at Arizona’s Kitt Peak National Observatory, is tasked with charting the expansion of space, investigating dark energy, and … Read More
If you’re swimming in a large volume of water, i’s difficult to judge the properties of distant floating objects with exacting precision, and the same is true for our star system as it swirls around the galaxy. This is perhaps … Read More
NASA has released an image taken by the Hubble telescope of a giant monstrous space ‘Pac-Man’ munching its way across the Cosmos. That isn’t a happy Pac-Man munching its way across the Universe. Even so, this stellar explosion remnant resembles … Read More
Galaxies exchange matter with their external environment thanks to galactic winds. For the first time, the MUSE instrument from the Very Large Telescope has mapped the galactic wind that drives these exchanges between galaxies and nebulae. This discovery led to … Read More