First data from Europe’s Lightning Imager

First data from Europe’s Lightning Imager

[ad_1] Discover the first results from Europe’s first Lightning Imager onboard the Meteosat Third Generation. The Lightning Imager can continuously detect rapid flashes of lighting in Earth’s atmosphere whether day or night from a distance of 36 000 km.This is the...
Ask Astro: Do all supernovae produce the same elements?

Ask Astro: Do all supernovae produce the same elements?

[ad_1] Back to Article List Depending on their mass and type, stars disperse different elements into the universe when they explode at the ends of their lives. Cassiopeia A was a type II supernova. This composite image shows, in different colors, several elements...
JWST Sees the Beginning of the Cosmic Web

JWST Sees the Beginning of the Cosmic Web

[ad_1] The Cosmic Web is the large-scale structure of the Universe. If you could watch our cosmos unfold from the Big Bang to today, you’d see these filaments (and the voids between them) form throughout time. Now, astronomers using JWST have found ten galaxies that...