by rmil2k | May 9, 2024 | News
The Rosette is in full bloom in this collaborative image comprising more than 110 hours of exposure. The high exposure time also allowed for sharpening the image and increasing contrast to reveal fine features, like the wispy structure of Bok globules and dust across...
by rmil2k | May 9, 2024 | News
When astrophysicists observe the cosmos, they see different types of black holes. They range from gargantuan supermassive black holes with billions of solar masses to difficult-to-find intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) all the way down to smaller stellar-mass...
by rmil2k | May 9, 2024 | News
Science & Exploration 08/05/2024 368 views 3 likes Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date for the...
by rmil2k | May 8, 2024 | News
Astronomers now have a way to figure out how gas-giant planets form, thanks to a discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of ammonia “isotopologues,” which are molecules that contain the same elements but with differing numbers of neutrons.The...
by rmil2k | May 8, 2024 | News
Back to Article List After coming up empty in other planetary systems, NASA’s flagship telescope has found the best evidence yet of a rich atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet. This is a NASA illustration from 2022 showing what exoplanet 55 Cancri e could look like. 55...
