Space BepiColombo Mission Captures First Images of Mercury On the night of October 2, BepiColombo approached the planet at a distance of 199 km and collected data using its sensors. Ten minutes after the fly-by, the spacecraft took a series of images.
Space Scientists Created a Downloadable Virtual Universe Since the computer model is highly detailed, it allows scientists to identify various objects like clusters of galaxies and stellar halos of individual galaxies. The simulation focuses on the behavior of dark matter and dark energy within the expanding universe.
Space Scientists Recorded Glowing Rings Around a Black Hole The observatory snapped a picture of the black hole in conjunction with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which is jointly run by the United States, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Scientists managed to detect the rings precisely by capturing X-rays.
Space Astronomers Discovered an Exoplanet Located 35 Light-Years From Earth Scientists named the new planetary system COCONUTS-2, and the new planet is called COCONUTS-2b. They were named after the Cool Companions on Ultrawide Orbits research project.
Space Astronomers First Spot Light Behind a Supermassive Black Hole This discovery confirms the general theory of relativity, according to which the gravitational attraction of black holes warps space, bends light rays, and twists magnetic fields around itself, allowing you to see the light echo.
Space Scientists Identified 29 Planets Where Alien Civilizations Could Observe the Earth According to astronomers, alien intelligent civilizations could potentially observe the Earth from 29 planets. From them, they could see the Earth and intercept radio waves that people send.
Space Astronomers Find a Blinking Star in the Center of the Milky Way That Is 100 Times Larger Than the Sun Scientists from the UK, Poland, and Chile observed the star with a telescope at the Chilean Observatory. They noticed that the star, which is 25 thousand light-years away and 100 times the size of the Sun, is losing its brightness.
Space Scientists Have Created a New Map of the Universe's Dark Matter Dark matter is an invisible matter that permeates space. Dark matter accounts for approximately 80% of the matter in the universe. Researchers had already published a map of the distribution of dark matter in 2017, when they explored 26 million galaxies.
Space Hubble Space Telescope Reveals Unique Quasars in Merging Galaxies The researchers are convinced that the discovery of these quasars offers a new way of probing collisions between galaxies and the merging of supermassive black holes in the early universe.
Space New Horizons Probe Will Study Three Kuiper Belt Objects at a Distance In May Now, the station is flying to the borders of the solar system, receiving unique data on the behavior of the solar wind and interstellar ions outside the orbit of Mars and studying the environment of the Kuiper Belt.
Space NASA Calculated the Probability of the Earth's Collision With the Apophis Asteroid On April 13, 2029, Apophis will approach Earth very closely. However, the researchers winnowed out the possibility of a collision after detailed calculations. Then scientists also calculated that there is no risk of collision in 2036 as well.
Space The Largest Asteroid of the Year Flew Past the Earth on March 21 Although two million kilometers is actually quite a long distance, on an astronomical scale it is still insignificant enough to define the moment when the 2001 FO32 flew by as a potentially dangerous incident.
Space Astronomers Showed a New Photo of a Black Hole With Magnetic Fields at Its Edge Scientists say the new image is important for understanding how the magnetic field allows a black hole to eat up cosmic material and throw matter into the universe.
Space The Parker Solar Probe Accidentally Took a Photo of Venus The Parker Solar Probe, which was launched to study the Sun, accidentally snapped a photo of Venus as it flew past the planet in July 2020. Launched in 2018, the probe uses Venus's gravity to move closer to the Sun.
Space Two Rare Natural Phenomena Were Captured Over Hawaii In 2017, an amazing shot of two rare bolts of lightning, a red sprite and a blue jet, was taken in the sky over the Hawaiian Islands. But the photo was only recently released by a US research laboratory.
Space Astronomers Have Taken a Detailed Picture of a Sunspot Larger Than Earth The image of this spot will be used in a series of scientific articles that describe the principles of operation and scientific goals of the telescope.
Space Astronomers Discovered an Exoplanet With Three Stars and a Strange Orbit Now, scientists want to find out how the planets in multi-star systems differ from those that revolve around a single star.
Space Astronomers Found Earth-Sized Rogue Planet Roaming the Milky Way Scientists detected the smallest orphan planet known to science. It is similar in size to Earth or Mars.
Space NASA Turned a Picture of Space Into Music A new project takes images from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes and turns them into sound in a process called sonification.
Space Supercomputer Simulations Show How the Moon Could Have Formed Even though scientists cannot claim that this is the definitive proof of the Moon’s formation, this still gives us a glimpse into how the celestial body could have formed.
Space NASA’s Probe Took a Photo of the “Christmas Star” This event is marked by two giant gas planets – Jupiter and Saturn – getting so close in the sky that they appear to meld into one bright object.
Space The New Atlas of the Universe Includes a Million New Galaxies The news data will allow scientists to perform statistical analyses of large galaxy populations.
