When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. A drawing shows what the universe might look like when it’s less than 1 billion years old. | Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Schaller (for STScI) When NASA’s next great extraterrestrial observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, opens… Read More »
A GIF showing a yellow-wrapped spacecraft with solar panel wings in space. Just outside Hiroya Yamaguchi’s office is a chalkboard full of exploded stars, spaceship diagrams, and spectral lines. The A4 printouts take up almost all the free space, except for a small corner where he sometimes scribbles with white chalk. Yamaguchi, now an associate… Read More »
Tomorrow (June 4) we’ll get an update on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, and it could be a pretty big deal. On June 3, the agency announced that the Hubble Space Telescope team would hold a press conference about the observatory’s status at 4 pm EDT (2000 GMT) tomorrow. Specifically, officials said the purpose of this… Read More »
Scientists using the Euclid space telescope have discovered a staggering 1.5 trillion orphan stars drifting within a massive cluster of thousands of galaxies, one of the largest structures in the universe. Torn away from their home galaxy, these orphan stars fill the space between the Perseus cluster’s galaxies with ghostly blue light. This so-called “intra-cluster”… Read More »
On Thursday, May 23, the European Space Agency (ESA) and collaborators released a series of five images created by the revolutionary space telescope Euclid. The Euclid consortium previously published five images from the space telescope on November 7, 2023. Euclid has been labeled Europe’s “dark universe detective” because its wide field of view allows it… Read More »
The European Space Agency (ESA) will release five new images from the Euclid space telescope on Thursday, May 23. And if the previous batch of photos is anything to go by, space fans should be in for an absolute treat. “Five new portraits of our universe were captured during Euclid’s first observations, each revealing surprising… Read More »
Some 90s trends have made a very welcome comeback; Others no one needs to see again. But unlike the frosted tips, baggy Batik shirts, landline phones and pogs that have (hopefully?) been consigned to the trash can, binary stars are resurfacing as worth studying. And not too soon. In short, binary stars are vital in… Read More »
NASA has officially halted scientific observations conducted by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. Do not worry. The space telescope, which observes some of the most powerful bursts of radiation from the universe’s most violent cosmic events, known as “gamma-ray bursts,” is only temporarily out of service. NASA put Swift into safe mode on March 15… Read More »
The Space Telescope Science Institute has announced which astronomy proposals have been selected to be given time with the James Webb Space Telescope over the next two years. The organization on Thursday, February 29, outlined the 253 General Observer (GO) program that will use humanity’s most powerful and sensitive space telescope for a collective 5,500… Read More »
The James Webb Space Telescope’s infrared view has transformed our view of the large, barred spiral galaxy, revealing its skeleton of dust illuminated by the glow of young stars. Visible light images of NGC 1559, such as those taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, show a bright swirl of light, with clusters of bright, young… Read More »