Astronomy

Astronomy

The first images from the James Webb Telescope

Star forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. © NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI ...
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Astronomy

Traces of a torn planetary system

This illustration shows a white dwarf sucking up debris from its former planetary system. © NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) ...
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Astronomy

How Charon’s polar ice cap formed

Pluto's moon Charon and its red polar cap. © NASA / Johns Hopkins APL / SwRI ...
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Astronomy

Spectacular: These are the photos from the James Webb telescope (we’re looking back in time 13 billion years)

Here they are: the first five color photos from the James Webb telescope. Hubble's successor does not disappoint. The images, which...
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Astronomy

10 percent chance that someone will get a piece of rocket on their head in the next 10 years

Mainly rain falls from the sky and ahead, the occasional hailstone. But you probably don't consider pieces of rocket that you can...
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Astronomy

Exceptionally long-lasting and strange radio signal discovered in space

The fast radio burst acts like a beating heart and may have originated from a dashing distant neutron star. Rapid radio bursts – huge...
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Astronomy

Mars cart Perseverance is looking for a suitable landing spot for its successor

And the mantra is: the duller, the better. Mars rover Perseverance is on the hunt for traces of (decayed) life. And in this...
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Zombies in a dead galaxy: Bizarre exoplanets were discovered 30 years ago and turn out to be very rare

The first evidence of a planet outside our solar system came in 1992. This exoplanet was found near a rapidly spinning neutron star,...
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‘Hopeless’ search for neutrinos from just after the Big Bang, a small step further

If you want to cash in on a Nobel Prize quickly, you'd better choose another subject. But the experiment KATRIN has just...
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Astronomy

This is the impressive first color image from the James Webb telescope

US President Joe Biden unveiled the first color image from NASA's James Webb telescope at the White House yesterday. This first image...
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Astronomy

Huge cloud of gas in our Milky Way galaxy is full of ingredients of building blocks for life

At the center of our Milky Way, the building blocks of RNA are abundant. Are these nitriles responsible for life on Earth...
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Astronomy

Surface of asteroid Bennu turns out to be a ball pit

The boulders that make up the surface of asteroid Bennu barely stick together, new research shows. The asteroid Bennu continues to amaze. Earlier,...
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Astronomy

Colliding galaxies? Yes, but you have to look closely!

Somewhere in this Hubble image, two galaxies collide. And no, it's not the two large spiral galaxies that seem to be sliding...
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Astronomy

These ancient microbes lived on light. And now help us track down extraterrestrial life

The earliest life on Earth got its energy from sunlight, which penetrated deep into the waters of the ocean. What does that...
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Astronomy

James Webb shortlist announced: we will see these cosmic crown jewels on Tuesday

We finally know which objects James Webb photographed and what we will see images of next Tuesday. It's an impressive list! We are...
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Astronomy

Citizen scientist tracks down 34 ultra-cool brown dwarfs without fear of commitment

It seems that brown dwarfs also regularly have a companion. If we take our sun as an example, you would think that stars often...
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Astronomy

First pictures of James Webb are coming – and NASA is already setting high expectations

In the run-up to the long-awaited color images, the American agency is already making us happy with a very good test photo. We are...
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Astronomy

Newly discovered, hefty space rock is coming closer than the moon today

The nearer will pass our planet at 'only' 89,000 kilometers. Only a few days ago, space rock 2022 NF came into the crosshairs of...
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Astronomy

In space, your bones can age ten years in six months (but you can do something about it)

A trip to space is no fun for your body. In fact, even extremely fit astronauts have weakened bones long after return....
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Astronomy

Mysterious rocket component that crashed on the moon in March turns out to have left behind a strange crater

Images of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal that the missile part has struck a double crater. And that's surprising. In late January, data...
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