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Topic: Astronomy (page 10)

Milky Way Galaxy (Getty Images)

Milky Way matured earlier, study says

Nicole Karlis
A NASA image of one of the Voyager space probes. Voyager 1 and its identical sister craft Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. (NASA/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Voyager 1 hears the "hum" of universe

Nicole Karlis
Highly magnetized rotating neutron star (Getty Images/Pitris)

We know more about neutron stars now

Matthew Rozsa
An illustration of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter flying on Mars (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Ingenuity survives night alone on Mars

Nicole Karlis
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Painting depicting the new horizons space probe as it approaches Charon, Pluto's moon. Dated 2015. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How dark is outer space?

Briley Lewis - Massive Science
Meteor hitting earth (Getty Images)

What if an impact crater isn't that?

Matthew Rozsa
Asteroid passing earth (Getty Images)

A massive asteroid grazes Earth

Matthew Rozsa
This artist’s impression shows how the distant quasar P172+18 and its radio jets may have looked. To date (early 2021), this is the most distant quasar with radio jets ever found and it was studied with the help of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. It is so distant that light from it has travelled for about 13 billion years to reach us: we see it as it was when the Universe was only about 780 million years old. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

The quasar that sees into the past

Nicole Karlis
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Universe, planets and lots of stars (Getty Images)

A new way of searching for alien life

Cody Fenwick - Alternet
This illustration shows NASA’s Mars 2020 spacecraft carrying the Perseverance rover as it approaches Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land on Mars safely on Feb. 18, 2021. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Listen to a spacecraft land on Mars

Matthew Rozsa
A Meteor glowing as it enters the Earth's atmosphere (Getty Images)

Did a comet kill the dinosaurs?

Nicole Karlis
Universe, planets and lots of stars (Getty Images)

Planetoid hints at new era in astronomy

Matthew Rozsa
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Illustration of alien plants on a hospitable foreign planet (Getty Images)

Is this one of the nearest exoplanets?

Matthew Rozsa
This artist’s impression shows the view from the planet in the TOI-178 system found orbiting furthest from the star. (ESO/L. Calçada/spaceengine.org)

These dancing planets are in resonance

Matthew Rozsa
Microbe structures on ALH84001 meteorite (Nasa)

When space stories fall victim to hype

Dan Falk - Undark
Extraterrestrial by Avi Loeb (Photo illustration by Salon/Olivia Falcigno/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

The first alien spacecraft?

Nicole Karlis
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Globe Spinning (Getty Images)

Why Earth is spinning faster than before

Matthew Rozsa
Spiral galaxy halo (Getty Images)

The stars that are leaving the galaxy

Nicole Karlis
Time, eternity and the universe (Getty Images)

Universe is 13.77 billion years young

Matthew Rozsa
The narrow galaxy elegantly curving around its spherical companion in this image is a fantastic example of a truly strange and very rare phenomenon. This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, depicts GAL-CLUS-022058s, located in the southern hemisphere constellation of Fornax (the Furnace). GAL-CLUS-022058s is the largest and one of the most complete Einstein rings ever discovered in our universe. The object has been nicknamed by astronomers studying this Einstein ring as the "Molten Ring," which alludes to its appearance and host constellation. (ESA/Hubble & NASA)

The “molten ring” that Hubble saw

Nicole Karlis
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Spiral galaxy (Getty Images)

Humanity's space travel plans for 2021

Nicole Karlis
The galaxy GN-z11, which scientists think could be the farthest and oldest galaxy every observed, superimposed on an image from the COODS-North survey. (NASA, ESA, P. Oesch (Yale University), G. Brammer (STScI), P. van Dokkum (Yale University), and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz))

The most distant galaxy upends physics

Nicole Karlis
mage of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy, also known as PHL 293B, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2011, before the disappearance of the massive star. Located some 75 million light-years away, the galaxy is too far away for astronomers to clearly resolve its individual stars, but in observations done between 2001 and 2011, they detected the signatures of the massive star. These signatures were not present in more recent data. (NASA/ESA/Hubble/J. Andrews/University of Arizona))

The Star of Bethlehem's comeback?

Eric M. Vanden Eykel - The Conversation
Star of Bethlehem illustration (Getty Images)

A Star of Bethlehem redux?

Nicole Karlis
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