[ad_1] I’m sure many readers of Universe Today are like me, fans of the science fiction genre. From the light sabres of Star Wars to the neuralyzer of Men in Black, science fiction has crazy inventions aplenty and once science fiction writers dream it, scientists and...

[ad_1] This new Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate details of the Herbig Haro object 797 (HH 797). Herbig-Haro objects are luminous regions surrounding newborn stars (known as protostars), and are formed when...

[ad_1] SpaceX plans to add yet more satellites to its ever-growing Starlink internet megaconstellation on Monday night (Nov. 27).A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on...

[ad_1] An image of the area surrounding Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, in X-ray and infrared light. X-ray: NASA/UMass/D.Wang et al.; IR: NASA/STScI The universe is filled with bizarre objects. Then again, Earth is...

[ad_1] The Orion Nebula is a favourite among stargazers, certainly one of mine. It’s a giant stellar nebula out of which, hot young stars are forming. Telescopically to the eye it appears as a grey/green haze of wonderment but cameras reveal the true glory of these...

[ad_1] Agency 24/11/2023 874 views 34 likes EIRSAT-1 team at ESA ESTEC Built by students at University College Dublin under guidance of ESA’s Education Office, EIRSAT-1 is a 2-unit CubeSat carrying three experiments, including a novel gamma ray detector that will...

[ad_1] We've been spoiled with excellent binoculars deals this Black Friday weekend. But as Cyber Monday rolls around, retailers show no sign of slowing down just yet. The latest we've spotted is the perfect Cyber Monday deal for budding stargazers: the Celestron...

[ad_1] The best telescopes for beginners are the ones that don't end up in a closet. Note: This post contains affiliate links. When you buy a product through the links on this page, we may earn a commission. Maybe you have had a casual interest in astronomy for years,...

[ad_1] While NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter continues to break records for both airspeed and altitude while it explores Jezero Crater on the Red Planet, NASA engineers back on Earth are hard at work testing carbon fiber blades for next-generation Mars helicopters...

[ad_1] Cinq, quatre, trois, deux, un. Allumage Vulcain! This is the moment Ariane 6’s main engine was sparked into life, and the entire main stage of the new rocket and the many parts of the launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana, practised for the full duration of a...