This discovery was made using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as NASA’s NuSTAR and CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), Joinfo.com reports. The close-in stellar couple – known as a binary – is located in the globular cluster 47 ...
Read More »Ancient Stardust Sheds Light on the First Stars
An international team of astronomers, led by Nicolas Laporte of University College London, has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe A2744_YD4, the earliest and most remote galaxy the array has ever seen, Joinfo.com reports with reference to NASA. They ...
Read More »Saturn’s moon Pan looks like a frozen ravioli the size of New York City
The Cassini spacecraft took a close-up photo of Saturn’s moon Pan, according to a new post by NASA, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Business Insider. This top-down image from Cassini — taken from about 15,000 miles (24,500 kilometers) away — shows what may ...
Read More »Cassini shows dichotomy of Saturn’s moon Enceladus
Cassini spacecraft took this photo of the sixth-largest moon of Saturn at a distance of approximately 41,000 miles (66,000 kilometers) from Enceladus with its narrow-angle camera on Nov. 27, 2016. Image scale is 1,310 feet (398 meters) per pixel, Joinfo.com ...
Read More »Mars may once have been completely underwater – scientists
The research team found evidence that a mineral found in Martian meteorites may have originally been a hydrogen-containing mineral, meaning there could have been more water on Mars at one stage, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Telegraph. Researchers created a ...
Read More »Hubble Showcases a Remarkable Galactic Hybrid
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image showcases the remarkable galaxy UGC 12591. UGC 12591 sits somewhere between a lenticular and a spiral. It lies just under 400 million light-years away from us in the westernmost region of the Pisces–Perseus Supercluster, ...
Read More »NASA Telescope Spots Temperature Swings of Black Hole Winds For The First Time
The winds, according to new measurements of a nearby supermassive black hole obtained with NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) telescope, can heat up and cool down in the span of just a few hours. The black hole is located ...
Read More »Cassini Shows Saturn North Pole Close Up
The north pole of Saturn sits at the center of its own domain. Around it swirl the clouds, driven by the fast winds of Saturn. Beyond that orbits Saturn’s retinue of moons and the countless small particles that form the ...
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