Astronomers said on Thursday they detected a bubble of hot gas spinning clockwise around the black hole at the center of our galaxy at “mind-boggling”…
Webb scans a nearby brown dwarf and finds it has clouds made of sand
Ever since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began its routine science observations, every day there seems to be something new in the world of…
Jupiter is at its closest to Earth in 59 years, NASA says
Jupiter, the most massive planet in the solar system, will make its closest approach to Earth in the past 59 years, giving observers “excellent views,”…
NASA’s Earth Observatory spots newly birthed island in the Pacific
The new baby island emerged in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, where underwater volcanoes abound. One of these submerged volcanoes woke up on September 10 spewing…
Hot gas bubble spotted spinning around Milky Way black hole
Astronomers have detected a bubble of hot gas swirling around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole at more than 200 million miles per hour. It…
Astronomers accidentally discover Black Hole so big you can spot it with a backyard telescope
The Fastest-Growing Black Hole Ever Seen In The Universe A supermassive black hole that grows so fast that it shines 7,000 times brighter than the…
Perseus Constellation: How To Locate, Stars, Myth And Data
Image Credit: NASA, CXC, GSFC, Stephen Walker, et al. The constellation of Perseus; is a constellation located in the northern sky. The constellation resembles the…
The toaster-sized instrument on NASA’s Perseverance rover is ‘reliably’ producing OXYGEN on Mars
Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS A toaster-sized instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover is “reliably” converting carbon dioxide to oxygen on Mars at about the same rate as a…
NASA: James Webb detects the first sample of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the first clear evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system. Banner Image: This…
The brief history of black holes that has led to the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
They started out as a curious concept, but theories and demonstrations showed that they are real. His knowledge has been the result of a great…