Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to observe a galaxy cluster that acts as a magnifying glass, allowing them to see enhanced detail in distant galaxies. The red galaxy revealed by Webb is being magnified and distorted in an unusual way, providing clues about the formation of galaxies billions of light-years ago.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·DateSep 4, 2024
The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) is a wide-field X-ray telescope that will image Earth's magnetospheric boundaries, revealing invisible structures and processes. It is part of the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission, which aims to study the solar winds' impact on our planet's magnetic environment.
A team of astronomers used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to create the most accurate three-dimensional understanding of stars' movements within the Draco dwarf galaxy. This allowed them to build a more precise model of dark matter distribution, which aligns with cosmological models and suggests a cusp-like structure.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal·TypeObservational study·DateJul 11, 2024
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Astronomers have discovered seven fast-moving stars in the Omega Centauri globular cluster, providing compelling evidence for the presence of an intermediate-mass black hole. The team analyzed over 500 Hubble images to search for signs of gravitational pull from the black hole.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalNature·TypeObservational study·DateJul 10, 2024
Astronomers have used Hubble and SOFIA to study the HM Sge binary star system, which experienced a sudden increase in brightness 40 years ago. The team has found that the system's temperature has increased, but paradoxically faded slightly, raising questions about its long-term behavior.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal·TypeObservational study·DateJun 10, 2024
Researchers captured a volcanic event on Io using the Large Binocular Telescope's SHARK-VIS instrument, achieving higher resolution than ever before with Earth-based observations. The images reveal surface details equivalent to taking a picture of a dime-sized object from 100 miles away.
SourceUniversity of Arizona·JournalGeophysical Research Letters·TypeObservational study·DateMay 30, 2024
The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully mapped the weather on WASP-43 b, a hot gas-giant exoplanet. The data reveals thick, high clouds covering the nightside and clear skies on the dayside, with equatorial winds reaching up to 5,000 miles per hour.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalNature Astronomy·DateApr 30, 2024
A new study using the James Webb Space Telescope found that the universe's early galaxies developed and matured much faster than previously believed. Almost 20% of disc galaxies observed had bar formations, indicating a more settled stage in galaxy evolution.
SourceDurham University·JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·TypeObservational study·DateApr 23, 2024
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A new study has sorted through models attempting to solve the cosmological tension, a discrepancy between two ways of calculating the universe's expansion. Three models that were previously viable solutions were excluded by the new data, while others reduced the tension but not solved it.
SourceSissa Medialab·JournalJournal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics·TypeData/statistical analysis·DateApr 19, 2024
The study used a trove of archived Hubble images to identify the asteroids, working with citizen scientists and machine learning algorithms. The discovery provides insights into the formation and evolution of the asteroid belt, suggesting that smaller fragments may be remnants of larger asteroids that have collided.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalAstronomy and Astrophysics·TypeObservational study·DateApr 18, 2024
Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to survey M82, a compact starburst galaxy with intense star formation activity. The study revealed intricate substructure, including concentrated areas of iron and molecular hydrogen being lit up by nearby young stars.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal·DateApr 3, 2024
Astronomers conducted the first search for forming planets using the James Webb Space Telescope, combining it with prior observations. The team found a potential planet candidate, but its existence is uncertain due to unknown factors.
SourceUniversity of Michigan·JournalThe Astronomical Journal·DateMar 27, 2024
The expansion rate of the universe is faster than predicted, according to NASA's Webb and Hubble telescopes. By combining data from both telescopes, scientists have ruled out measurement errors as the cause, suggesting that new physics may be at play.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal Letters·TypeObservational study·DateMar 11, 2024
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Astronomers discover tiny, red versions of massive black holes that could change our understanding of their origins. The 'baby quasars' are small-scale black holes with masses between ten and a hundred million solar masses, observed using the James Webb Space Telescope.
SourceInstitute of Science and Technology Austria·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal·TypeObservational study·DateMar 7, 2024
Astronomers have discovered that the most powerful fast radio burst (FRB) ever observed originated from a rare compact group of at least seven interacting galaxies. This finding challenges scientific models of how FRBs are produced and may indicate that star formation triggered the burst.
SourceNorthwestern University·TypeObservational study·DateJan 9, 2024
Researchers discover extremely red objects (EROs) in James Webb Space Telescope data that resemble blue-excess dust obscured galaxies (BluDOGs) found in Subaru Telescope data. The similarity suggests EROs and BluDOGs may be at similar stages of evolution, with a larger sample needed to confirm the relationship.
SourceNational Institutes of Natural Sciences·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal Letters·TypeObservational study·DateDec 14, 2023
Astronomers identify AzTECC71 as a dusty star-forming galaxy, forming hundreds of new stars every year. The discovery suggests the early universe was much dustier than previously thought and may reveal a population of hidden galaxies.
SourceUniversity of Texas at Austin·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal·TypeObservational study·DateDec 1, 2023
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Researchers from Universities of Bonn and St. Andrews propose an alternative theory of gravity as the cause of the discrepancy in measured values of the Hubble-Lemaitre constant. This 'modified Newtonian dynamics' (MOND) theory predicts the existence of regions with lower matter density, which would explain the observed deviations.
SourceUniversity of Bonn·JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·TypeComputational simulation/modeling·DateDec 1, 2023
The Telescope Array has detected the second-highest energy cosmic ray ever observed, with an energy equivalent to dropping a brick on your toe from waist height. The Amaterasu particle deepens the mystery of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, which may follow particle physics unknown to science.
SourceUniversity of Utah·JournalScience·TypeExperimental study·DateNov 23, 2023
The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has measured the size of LTT 1445Ac, an Earth-sized exoplanet passing in front of a neighboring star. The planet's diameter is found to be 1.07 times that of Earth, indicating a rocky world with surface gravity similar to our own.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalThe Astronomical Journal·TypeObservational study·DateNov 16, 2023
The combined image reveals galaxies outside the cluster, varied sources over time likely due to gravitational lensing, and transients varying in brightness. The team identified 14 such transients across the field, including highly magnified stars or multiple-star systems and supernovae.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal·DateNov 9, 2023
Astronomers combined the Webb and Hubble telescopes to capture a detailed portrait of the cosmos, revealing a galaxy cluster about 4.3 billion light-years from Earth. The image showcases magnified supernovae and individual stars, providing insights into the universe's first stars and the forces driving its expansion.
SourceTexas A&M University·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal·DateNov 9, 2023
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An international team of astronomers has identified 106 galaxies with sizes between normal dwarfs and ultra-compact dwarfs in the Virgo Cluster. These 'fossils' provide insight into how extreme galaxies form, suggesting a common origin for ultra-diffuse galaxies and ultra-compact dwarf galaxies.
A new method using colliding neutron stars may help resolve the discrepancy in measuring the universe's expansion rate. By analyzing the symmetry of kilonovae, astronomers can calculate distances to galaxies more accurately than current methods.
SourceUniversity of Copenhagen - Faculty of Science·JournalAstronomy·TypeObservational study·DateOct 2, 2023
Astronomers used James Webb Space Telescope to discover that Milky Way-like galaxies are surprisingly common and dominated throughout the universe's history. These 'disk' galaxies formed 10 billion years ago or longer and were previously thought to be fragile in early Universe.
SourceUniversity of Manchester·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal·DateSep 22, 2023
The James Webb Space Telescope has refined measurements of the Hubble constant using Cepheid variables. The observations provide new insights into the universe's expansion rate and its implications for the cosmos.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal·DateSep 14, 2023
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The Hubble Space Telescope has observed extreme variability in the atmosphere of an exoplanet orbiting a young red dwarf star. The planet, AU Mic b, experiences unpredictable blasts of energy that evaporate its hydrogen atmosphere, but with varying success.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalThe Astronomical Journal·TypeObservational study·DateJul 27, 2023
A new study detects starlight from two massive galaxies hosting actively growing black holes, seen less than a billion years after the Big Bang. The findings suggest that the relationship between black holes and their host galaxies was already in place 860 million years ago.
SourceKavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe·JournalNature·DateJun 28, 2023
A team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope has detected complex organic molecules in a galaxy over 12 billion light-years away. The discovery suggests that the presence of these molecules does not necessarily indicate star formation, contradicting a long-held assumption.
SourceTexas A&M University·JournalNature·DateJun 5, 2023
Astronomers using Hubble have found evidence for an intermediate-mass black hole in the globular star cluster Messier 4, weighing approximately 800 solar masses. The discovery uses precise measurements of stellar motion to rule out alternative theories and suggests a single, compact black hole at the center.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·TypeObservational study·DateMay 23, 2023
The discovery of two shadow puppets in the disk of young star TW Hydrae suggests that planets may be forming in a complex system. The shadows are thought to be caused by the gravitational pull of two planets in slightly different orbital planes, with one planet likely to be Jupiter-mass.
SourceGeorge Mason University·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal·TypeObservational study·DateMay 5, 2023
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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a second shadow sweeping across the face of TW Hydrae's vast pancake-shaped gas-and-dust disk, suggesting the presence of two planets in slightly different orbital planes. The disks are likely proxies for these planets, which could be lapping each other as they whirl around the star.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal·DateMay 4, 2023
The SuperBIT telescope has begun capturing high-resolution images of the Universe on its first research flight. It is investigating the mystery of dark matter, which is thought to be made up of particles that can bounce off each other during galaxy collisions.
Astronomers use the Hubble Space Telescope and Keck Observatory to measure the 3D shape of galaxy M87, revealing a 'potato-shaped' triaxial form. The team also determines the mass of the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's core, estimating it at 5.4 billion solar masses.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal Letters·DateApr 13, 2023
Astronomers have discovered a massive, runaway black hole that has left behind a never-before-seen trail of newborn stars. The black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, is plowing into gas to trigger new star formation along a narrow corridor.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal Letters·TypeObservational study·DateApr 6, 2023
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovered a pair of gravitationally bound quasars inside two merging galaxies when the universe was just 3 billion years old. The finding provides insights into early galaxy mergers and supermassive black holes.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalNature·TypeObservational study·DateApr 5, 2023
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A new study by EPFL researchers has calibrated the best cosmic yardsticks to unprecedented accuracy, further amplifying the Hubble tension. The Hubble constant is measured in kilometers per second per megaparsec and has puzzled astrophysicists and cosmologists worldwide.
SourceEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne·JournalAstronomy and Astrophysics·TypeData/statistical analysis·DateApr 4, 2023
Astronomers have found that Saturn's vast ring system is heating the giant planet's upper atmosphere, a phenomenon that could provide insights into the atmospheres of distant worlds. The discovery was made using archival ultraviolet-light observations from four space missions, including Hubble and Cassini.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalThe Planetary Science Journal·TypeObservational study·DateMar 30, 2023
The Hubble movie reveals surprising hour-by-hour changes as dust and chunks of debris were flung into space. The dynamic interaction within the binary system starts to distort the ejecta pattern, forming rotating pinwheel-shaped features tied to the gravitational pull of Didymos.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalNature·TypeObservational study·DateMar 1, 2023
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the start of Saturn's spoke season, a mysterious phenomenon that appears across the planet's rings during its equinox. The cause of the spokes remains unknown, but scientists believe they may be linked to Saturn's variable magnetic field and charged particles in the solar wind.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalGeophysical Research Letters·TypeObservational study·DateFeb 9, 2023
The James Webb Space Telescope has identified the precise location of the 'engine' powering merging galaxy IIZw096, a bright and energetic source of light. The engine is responsible for up to 70% of the system's infrared emission and has a radius no larger than 570 light years.
SourceHiroshima University·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal Letters·DateFeb 6, 2023
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The James Webb Space Telescope has enabled the detection of compact structures of star clusters inside galaxies, known as clumps. Researchers have studied the link between clump formation and galaxy growth in distant galaxies, providing new insights into the early stages of galaxy formation.
SourceStockholm University·JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·TypeObservational study·DateFeb 6, 2023
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have directly measured the mass of a lone white dwarf for the first time. The white dwarf, LAWD 37, has a mass of 56% that of our Sun, corroborating current theories of how white dwarfs evolve.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·TypeObservational study·DateFeb 2, 2023
Researchers Martin S. Sloth and Florian Niedermann introduce New Early Dark Energy (NEDE) as a solution to the Hubble tension problem, suggesting a phase transition in dark energy that explains different measurement results for the universe's expansion rate.
SourceUniversity of Southern Denmark·JournalPhysics Letters B·TypeComputational simulation/modeling·DateFeb 1, 2023
Astronomers using Hubble observed a star's final moments as it was gobbled up by a black hole, creating a donut-shaped torus. The event provides forensic clues to the black hole homicide, with details on the debris's behavior and the accretion rate.
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The Butterfly Nebula's unique shape is caused by a second star orbiting the central star, creating wing-like lobes. New research reveals powerful winds are altering the material within these lobes, contradicting existing models of planetary nebulae formation and evolution.
SourceUniversity of Washington·TypeObservational study·DateJan 12, 2023
Researchers used the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury Triangulum Extended Region — or PHATTER — survey to study the Triangulum galaxy. The team discovered two drastically different structures depending on the age of the stars, with younger and older stars having distinct distributions.
SourceUniversity of Washington·TypeObservational study·DateJan 11, 2023
A team of astronomers discovered 87 galaxies that could be the earliest known galaxies in the universe using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. This finding suggests a revision to our understanding of galaxy formation, indicating that more galaxies may have formed earlier than previously thought.
SourceUniversity of Missouri-Columbia·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal Letters·DateJan 9, 2023
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected galaxies with stellar bars, similar to the Milky Way, at a time when the universe was just 25% of its present age. This discovery shakes up galaxy evolution scenarios and challenges theoretical models.
SourceUniversity of Texas at Austin·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal Letters·TypeObservational study·DateJan 5, 2023
The Hubble Space Telescope has shed new light on the mystery of intracluster light, finding that these stars have been wandering around for billions of years. The survey suggests that these stars were already homeless in the early stages of the cluster's formation, and current theories cannot explain their origin.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalNature·DateJan 4, 2023
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed thousands of new galaxies more distant and ancient than previously documented, with data hinting at potential life-supporting abilities of exoplanets. The telescope's capabilities have also shed light on planetary atmospheres, providing valuable insights into the universe's past.
SourceAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)·JournalScience·DateDec 15, 2022
The JWST's PEARLS project has unveiled stunning images of distant galaxies, providing new insights into the formation and evolution of galaxies. The team's data show evidence for giant black holes and interacting galaxies with active nuclei, shedding light on the processes that shape the universe.
SourceArizona State University·JournalThe Astronomical Journal·TypeObservational study·DateDec 14, 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured infrared images of a population of red spiral galaxies at unprecedented resolution, revealing their morphology in detail. These galaxies are among the farthest known spiral galaxies and suggest that such spiral galaxies existed in large numbers in the early universe.
SourceWaseda University·JournalThe Astrophysical Journal Letters·TypeImaging analysis·DateDec 12, 2022
Astronomers using Hubble Space Telescope data found a small but significant excess of light in the sky, equivalent to the glow of 10 fireflies. This residual glow could be caused by a tenuous sphere of dust from comets falling into the solar system, adding a new component to the known architecture of the solar system.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalThe Astronomical Journal·TypeObservational study·DateDec 9, 2022
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Four early galaxies have been confirmed by spectroscopic observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), with two of them being the most distant galaxies to date. The galaxies are estimated to be around 13.4 billion years old, dating back to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang.
SourceUniversity of California - Santa Cruz·DateDec 9, 2022
A team of astronomers used JWST images to piece together the death of a 500-million-year-old star, which created shrouds of gas and left a remnant dense white dwarf. The study reveals evidence of two or three companion stars that hastened its death, with implications for supernovae and gravitational wave systems.
SourceMacquarie University·JournalNature Astronomy·TypeData/statistical analysis·DateDec 8, 2022
Astronomers have uncovered a nearby galaxy, HIPASS J1131–31, nicknamed 'Peekaboo,' which has characteristics reminiscent of galaxies in the distant, early universe. The tiny galaxy is only 20 million light-years from Earth and exhibits extreme metal-poor properties.
SourceNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center·JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·TypeObservational study·DateDec 6, 2022
Researchers develop new method to evaluate telescope performance before installation, enabling better optimization and reduced scattering. This approach uses near-field radio holography to map the optics at cryogenic temperatures, improving signal-to-noise ratio and ensuring accurate space observations.
A team of researchers used images from the Hubble Space Telescope to determine the age and composition of a distant supernova. The study suggests that the heavier atomic elements necessary for life were created inside stars and released during supernovae explosions.
SourceUniversity of the Basque Country·JournalNature·DateNov 10, 2022
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Researchers have measured the size of a star dating back 2 billion years after the Big Bang, gaining insight into the stars and galaxies of the early Universe. The study used detailed images of a red supergiant supernova to reconstruct its cooling process, shedding light on how massive stars formed in galaxies during this period.
SourceUniversity of Minnesota·JournalNature·TypeObservational study·DateNov 9, 2022