heic2313 — Photo Release 20 December 2023 To celebrate the holiday season, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the galaxy known as UGC 8091, which resembles a sparkling festive snow globe. With a dazzling array of wavelengths of light captured by...

Credit: Pixabay/ AlainAudet With snow already flying across some of the country, it may be hard to believe that winter does not officially arrive until the Dec. 21 solstice. The winter solstice — the precise moment when the Sun appears farthest south in the sky...

Just in time for the holidays, a new composite image of the Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264) has been released. This image is a group effort: the blue and white stars in the cluster giving off X-rays are seen by Chandra, while the faint green nebula was imaged...

A palm-sized propulsion option for future space missions: each one of these seven emitter arrays etched onto this silicon wafer using micro- and nano-technology possesses more than 500 pinhole-sized emitters that spray out ions, accelerated via an electrostatic...

Star projectors holiday gift guide: Jump menuIf you’re looking for the best drone accessories available for all experience levels, for a loved one or even a little treat for yourself this holiday season, we have the perfect holiday gift guide for you. Buying a...

Back to Article List The Orion Nebula is one of the great observational playgrounds in the northern sky. The Orion Nebula makes for an expansive scene of glowing hydrogen gas, sculpted by gravity and the stars that are forming within it. Credit: Fernando...

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket successfully launched and landed today at the company’s Launch Site One in West Texas, with an uncrewed science and goodwill payload onboard. This was the 24th New Shepard flight and 13th payload mission today from Launch Site...

Enabling & Support 19/12/2023 352 views 29 likes The latest international group to employ ESA’s hypergravity-generating Large Diameter Centrifuge is an all-female team from Bolivia, with access sponsored by the United Nations and ESA. The researchers are...

A group has been formed to study and promote a space-based sunshade to help fend off global climate change. The idea has been discussed for years, but the Planetary Sunshade Foundation is cranking out papers that support the concept and spotlight the...

An end-on view of one of the first full-energy collisions between gold ions at Brookhaven Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), as captured by the Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC (STAR) detector. The collisions create a quark-gluon soup that reproduces the...