Seasonal snow performs a major function in international water and vitality cycles, and billions of individuals worldwide depend on snowmelt for water assets wants, together with water provide, hydropower, agriculture, and extra. Monitoring snow water equal (SWE) is...
A large, spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies is the setting of in the present day’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture. The galaxy cluster in query is Abell 209, situated 2.8 billion light-years away within the constellation Cetus (the Whale).
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NASA’s Parker Photo voltaic Probe has taken the closest ever pictures to the Solar, captured simply 3.8 million miles from the photo voltaic floor.
The brand new close-up pictures present options within the photo voltaic wind, the fixed...
It’s the cat’s meow! To have fun its third yr of unveiling gorgeous scenes of the cosmos in infrared mild, NASA’s James Webb Area Telescope has “clawed” again the thick, dusty layers of a bit inside the Cat’s...
On June 14 and 16, technicians put in photo voltaic panels onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Area Telescope, one of many last steps in assembling the observatory. Collectively referred to as the Photo voltaic Array Solar Protect, these...
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...
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...
An unexpectedly robust photo voltaic storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas within the U.S. and taking the world unexpectedly.
Two days earlier, the Solar blasted a coronal mass ejection...
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...