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The James Webb Space Telescope discovers enormous distant galaxies that should not exist

Six distant galaxies discovered in early James Webb Space Telescope images appear surprisingly large for their. These six galaxies may force astronomers to rewrite cosmology books. (Image credit: NASA ...

Watch the moon meet up with Jupiter in the night sky tonight

Solar system planets can also share the same right ascension, being they can be in conjunction to each other, but these planets move much more slowly along the ecliptic conjunctions between the planets are far rarer than conjunctions with the moon.

Hubble Space Telescope peers into a glittering sea of extragalactic stars (photo)

The LMC looks like a strange smudge to the naked eye, but it's actually a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. The LMC is close enough to us that Hubble can make out individual stars within it, but the chasm between both galaxies presents some challenges ...

Webb telescope spots surprisingly massive galaxies from the early universe

CNN

CNN

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer back in time to the early days of the universe — and they spotted something unexpected. The space observatory revealed six massive galaxies that existed between 500 million ...

'Runaway' black hole the size of 20 million suns found speeding through space with a trail of newborn stars behind it

Livescience.com

Livescience.com

The researchers discovered the runaway black hole as a bright streak of light while they were using the Hubble Space Telescope to observe the dwarf galaxy RCP 28, located about 7.5 billion light-years from Earth.

In search of Planet 9: An unconventional detection approach

There is a mystery in our solar system surrounding the orbits of Kuiper belt objects. More than one trillion icy objects smaller than our moon orbit the sun in a donut-shaped ring beyond Neptune. Oddly, a cluster of outer Kuiper belt objects all ...

This Particle Accelerator Makes a Substance That Has Not Existed in 13 Billion Years

Scientific American

Scientific American

Those particles are called gluons. Scientists name this universe creating fluid quark-gluon plasma. It hasn't been found in nature since the beginning of time as we know it. But scientist states can recreate it inside particle accelerators.

Physics

Finding Nonlinearities in Black Hole Ringdowns

Physics

February 22, 2023 • Physics 16, 29. Simulations show that nonlinear spacetime dynamics manifest in the postmerger gravitational-wave signal of binary black hole coalescence. Figure caption expand figure. (Top) Kip Thorne; (Bottom) B. P. Abbott et al.

EarthSky

Stranded ISS crew to get a new spacecraft

EarthSky

The space travelers – Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, and U.S. astronaut Frank Rubio – are aboard ISS without a designated ship to get home. That's because the ship that carried them to ISS sprang a ...

Passerine bird takes advantage of human settlements

Daurian redstarts move their nesting sites closer to or even inside human settlements when cuckoos are around. In doing so, they actively protect their nest against brood parasitism, as cuckoos avoid human settlements.