A beforehand unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars on this NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture. Globular clusters like this one, referred to as ESO 591-12 or Palomar 8, are spherical collections of tens of hundreds to tens...
NASA’s latest astrophysics area telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now settled into low-Earth orbit, SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the Historical past of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices...
Since July 2022, NASA’s James Webb House Telescope has been unwaveringly centered on our universe. With its unprecedented energy to detect and analyze in any other case invisible infrared gentle, Webb is making observations that had been as...
A singular new materials that shrinks when it's heated and expands when it's cooled might assist allow the ultra-stable house telescopes that future NASA missions require to seek for liveable worlds.
One of many objectives of NASA’s Astrophysics Division...
When two stars orbit each other in such a approach that one blocks the opposite’s mild every time it swings round, that’s an eclipsing binary. A new paper from NASA’s Eclipsing Binary Patrol citizen science undertaking presents greater...
Current-day disk galaxies usually comprise a thick, star-filled outer disk and an embedded skinny disk of stars. As an example, our personal Milky Way galaxy’s thick disk is roughly 3,000 light-years in peak, and its skinny disk is...
NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Inside Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the Worldwide Area Station, has paused observations resulting from an issue with one of many motors that drives its means to trace cosmic objects.
The NICER workforce paused...