The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, contains the young star cluster NGC 6611. It also the site of the spectacular star-forming region known as the Pillars of Creation, which is located in the southern portion of the Eagle Nebula. This new composite image shows the region around the Pillars, which are about 5,700 ...
Back in 2014, NASA awarded both Boeing and SpaceX contracts to develop commercial crew transportation systems; the eventual initial missions under these contracts will involve trips to the International Space Station (ISS). In contrast, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin have solid plans to cash in on human space travel by ferrying tourists to the frontier ...
About a decade ago, astronomers discovered a population of small, but massive galaxies called “red nuggets.” A new study using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory indicates that black holes have squelched star formation in these galaxies and may have used some of the untapped stellar fuel to grow to unusually massive proportions. Red nuggets were first ...
For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving jet of material ejected when the powerful gravity of a supermassive black hole ripped apart a star that wandered too close to the cosmic monster. The scientists tracked the event with radio and infrared telescopes, including the National Science Foundation’s ...
Mars is our closest interstellar neighbor, and the red planet is currently in the middle of massive dust storms that have been circling it for the past couple of weeks. While these present an awesome opportunity for scientists to study the unique weather patterns of Mars, they could spell disaster for the two rovers that ...
Near Earth Objects (NEOs) are small solar system bodies whose orbits sometimes bring them close to the Earth, potentially threatening a collision. NEOs are tracers of the composition, dynamics, and environmental conditions throughout the solar system, and of the history of our planetary system. Most meteorites come from Near Earth Objects, which are thus one ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new evidence of ancient organic material preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported life, as well as new evidence in the Martian atmosphere that relates to the search for current life on the Red Planet. While not necessarily evidence of life itself, these findings are ...
We’ve all heard about the search for life on other planets, but what about looking at other distant moons? UCR researchers have identified 121 giant planets that may have habitable satellites. In a paper forthcoming in The Astrophysical Journal, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, and the University of Southern Queensland have identified more than 100 ...
Astronomers have discovered several bizarre objects at the Galactic Center near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole that are concealing their true identity behind a smokescreen of dust; they look like gas clouds, but behave like stars. At the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Denver, a team of researchers, led by UCLA Postdoctoral Scholar Anna ...
It will be possible to use new astronomical mappings of hundreds of thousands of cosmic voids and galaxy clusters to test Einstein’s theory of relativity by looking for small deviations in gravity at vast distances — a possible explanation for the dark energy that is accelerating the expansion of the universe. This is shown in ...
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