The differences seen here could be throwing off how we study planetary atmospheres.
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Astronomers have spent decades scouring the universe for signs of life and come up empty-handed - but what if they were simply looking the wrong way?
NASA's Fermi Telescope Captures First Clear Signal from the Engine of a Record-Bright Star Explosion
Photo credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA/GESTAR) Astronomers have tracked thousands of exploding stars over the years yet a handful stand out for their extreme brightness. Data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has ...
Messier 77 is one of the largest nearby spiral galaxies, with an active, brilliant core. Here's what JWST's incomparable eyes saw insideContinue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
Astronomers have uncovered a strange magnetic "flip" hidden inside the Milky Way. Using a new radio telescope, researchers mapped the galaxy's magnetic field in unprecedented detail and discovered that a mysterious reversal in the Sagittarius Arm ...
A relatively tiny world in the Kuiper belt, just 500 km in diameter, has an atmosphere after all, joining Pluto. Here's what we know today.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now aiming for an earlier launch in September 2026. Designed to explore dark matter, dark energy, and distant exoplanets, the telescope will capture massive, ultra-detailed surveys of the cosmos using ...
Astronomers did not know about the space rock until about a week ago.
Only nearby objects appear to the naked eye. With telescopes of all types, especially in space, we've smashed those records many timesContinue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
Scientists for the first time have measured the instantaneous mind-blowing power of jets blasting from a black hole.