The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is adding efforts to improve the military’s ability to understand and react to unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), commonly known as UFOs. In a press briefing on Saturday, Tim Phillips, the acting head of AARO, introduced the Gremlin System, an advanced surveillance capability designed...
Dead galaxy! Do big things end up the same way? – Yes, they do! Astronomers have recently discovered the earliest ‘dead’ galaxy. This early galaxy, identified when the universe was just 700 million years old, ceased star formation about over 13 billion years ago, challenging prevailing cosmic evolution models. Astronomers...
The results of the study provide revolutionary insights into the factors that support the formation of planets and the variety of planetary systems taking shape. According to the researchers, certain disks show spiral patterns caused by planets orbiting within them, whereas others exhibit rings and empty spaces created as planets develop.
Once this universe was a dark space, simple and void. Over time, it developed with telescopic technology into the complex network of galaxies and stars. Now, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is reshaping our understanding of the universe by expanding our knowledge and uncovering the secrets hidden within the...
The total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, is drawing near for astronomy enthusiasts across the Americas. This Sun-Moon-Earth event, with the moon aligning perfectly to block the sun’s disk, creating a breathtaking moment known as totality, will indeed be spectacular. “The sky will darken as if it were dawn...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured another captivating image of Arp 122, a peculiar galaxy undergoing a monstrous merger. This cosmic collision involves two galaxies – NGC 6040, a tilted, warped spiral, and LEDA 59642, a round, face-on spiral, at a distance of approximately 570 million light-years from Earth. Galactic...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently identified a second supernova within a distant galaxy, MACS J0138.0-2155, refueling the debate surrounding the universe’s expansion rate. This discovery, observed in November 2023, utilizes the gravitational lensing effect, bending light due to intense gravity, leading to multiple images of the galaxy. Astronomers stumbled...
The new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the “forbidden” light coming from a distant spiral galaxy. The wonderful spiral galaxy, MCG-01-24-014, is located nearly 275 light-years from Earth. It hosts two prominent and well defined spiral arms, along with a glowing core full of energy, which shines almost...
A new study has suggested that the regular bursts of high-energy gamma-rays, striking Earth every 76 minutes, originate from a mysterious rotating gas blob near the heart of the Milky Way‘s supermassive central black hole. This discovery by astrophysicists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico sheds light on a...
Spider pulsars are the dead stars wreaking havoc on their neighbors. They strip companion stars through energetic particle winds, and Chandra’s recent findings, set to be published in the December issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, reveal their destructive nature on an extreme scale. As described...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected water vapor and methane in the atmosphere of an exoplanet named WASP-80 b. Located nearly 163 light-years away, the gas giant exoplanet, which orbits a K-type star, happens to be similar to our own gas giant Jupiter, both in aesthetics and components....
In 2019, a collaborative effort among the world’s astronomers successfully captured a historic image of the black hole in Messier 87. The moment was the most significant for humanity in terms of space exploration. Further exploration of the black hole’s image has lately defied conventional understanding, contrary to its notorious...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has sent a stunning image of the Milky Way’s galactic center. The image displays a portion of the dense central area, a never-before-seen view of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) star-forming region, situated around 300 light-years from Sagittarius A*, the central supermassive black hole of...
The peaceful exterior of the cosmos often hides the tumultuous and explosive events that have occurred within its vast expanse. Recently, the NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 941, a spiral galaxy with an explosive past, situated approximately 55 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum. The...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has measured the size of the nearest Earth-sized exoplanet known as LTT 1445Ac, which orbits a star within the constellation Eridanus. Initially found by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in 2022, LTT 1445Ac’s exact size remained uncertain due to the limitations of TESS’s optics. Emily...