Tag: Deep Space, Space, Space Telescope
How ‘safe mode’ protects space telescopes like Hubble and TESS
What could bears and space telescopes possibly have in common? Last month, both the Hubble Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet...
Greetings, Earth! NASA can understand Voyager 1 again
For the first time since November 2023, NASA is receiving meaningful communication from its Voyager 1 probe. The agency has spent months...
Where do all those colors in space telescope images come from?
We’ve all seen beautiful images of outer space, with vivid swirls and bright stars resting on a black abyss. With how quick it is to snap...
Plunge into an immersive IMAX movie featuring the James Webb Space Telescope
In the new IMAX film Deep Sky, a protostar shines from the center of a dark cloud, the phantom galaxy swirls, and the dusty space clouds of...
Humongous stellar-mass black hole is the biggest ever found in Milky Way
Scientists have discovered an enormous stellar-mass black hole in our Milky Way galaxy that’s roughly 33 times more massive than our sun....
A 3,200-megapixel digital camera is ready for its cosmic photoshoot
The world’s largest digital camera is officially ready to begin filming “the greatest movie of all time,” according to its makers....
This hot Jupiter exoplanet unexpectedly hangs out with a super-Earth
Our solar system has a suite of eight planets—rocky Mars and Earth, the ice giants, and massive gas planets—but other stars often have...
A super pressure balloon built by students is cruising Earth’s skies to find dark matter
High altitude balloons have drawn a lot of fire lately. In February, the US military shot down a spy balloon potentially operated by the...
A gassy black hole might have burped out the largest cosmic explosion ever
Humans might fear the nuclear bomb, but it is not even a blip against what the cosmos can unleash. Take, for example, the gamma ray burst:...
How hundreds of college students are helping solve a centuries-old mystery about the sun
A team of more than 1,000 astronomers and college students just took a step closer to solving one of the long-lasting mysteries of...
