Such a capability of detecting gases like CO2 around an exoplanet normally indicates that the Webb telescope has potential to find clues about alien life forms as well in the future.
- August 28, 2022
Latest Findings
It is not practical to produce two pairs of entangled photons simultaneously, according to Xi-Lin Wang. Instead, they used a single pair of photons that are entangled in two different ways: orbital angular momentum…
- July 24, 2022
This newly found black hole has a mass at least nine times greater than our sun. It was detected in the Tarantula Nebula region of the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy and is located about 160,000 light years from Earth.
- July 19, 2022
Astronomers have observed a star, a white dwarf, that survived a supernovae explosion and emerged being still brighter than before. Located 108 million light years from Earth, this white dwarf is in a spiral galaxy called NGC 1309, about three quarters the size of our Milky Way. A light year...
- June 29, 2022
Astronomers discover a new multi-planet system within our galactic neighborhood. The system lies just 10 parsecs, or about 33 light-years, from Earth. At the heart of the system lies a small and cool M-dwarf star, named HD 260655, and astronomers have found that it hosts at least two terrestrial, Earth-sized...
- June 19, 2022
Astronomers have recently identified two large as well as mysterious objects blasting out of the brightest black hole in the known universe. The supermassive black hole 3C 273, which is a quasar, was discovered in a 1959 survey of cosmic radio-wave sources. The light emitted by these behemoths is bright...
- June 9, 2022
One of the most mysterious objects for human beings, the concept of the black hole has always puzzled scientists. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, astronomers now say that an image of a huge, spectacular set of rings around a black hole has been captured. Part...
- June 3, 2022
This detection of an intergalactic radio source of unknown origin, through a careful search in archival data and its subsequent follow-up activities, is a clear demonstration that the exploration of the radio sky is still rich of discoveries.
- June 1, 2022
‘Black widow’ binary star is a system where a large dead star is orbited by a much smaller companion star. The closer the companion approaches, the brighter it shines, until it finally crashes onto the surface of its partner.
- May 7, 2022
According to astronomers, the galaxy will eventually become an extremely bright quasar once the dust is gone.
- April 15, 2022
One of the most awaited moment in the history of space telescopes, the James Webb Space Telescope is going to complete the first phase of the months-long process of aligning the observatory’s primary mirror using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument. According to NASA, the challenges to meet for the...
- February 11, 2022
The Hubble Space Telescope, which has already contributed the human civilization with unprecedented approach to the outer space, has captured yet another cosmic view of an incredible three-dimensional-looking image of two interacting galaxies on the verge of a cosmic draw. The image has been released by the European Space Agency...
- February 7, 2022
Researchers have found a strange spinning object in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Australian researchers say that the object is unlike anything astronomers have ever seen before. The team’s paper on the object has been published in the latest edition of the journal Nature. The object, which releases a huge...
- January 27, 2022
Researchers have claimed that they have found the second candidate of exomoon, which orbits a planet circling a sun-like star about 5.7k light-years from the earth. In Nature Astronomy on 13 January, they have reported about the finding of the exomoon. The team of astronomers has said that the satellite...
- January 13, 2022
Scientists are eager to trace an evidence of life in a world other than the Earth. After a close observation of the Moon, it has almost become clear that the earth’s natural satellite doesn’t contain life in any form. But there was some hope of existing life in some form...
- August 3, 2021