First stunning view of Webb Telescope
A stunning comparison of the same target, as seen by the Spitzer Space Telescope and then in the Webb Telescope’s calibration images.
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New stunning view of Milky Way’s center
NASA’s flying telescope SOFIA captured a crisp infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
A Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet’s Surface
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope provide a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a rocky exoplanet orbiting a star beyond the Sun.
A Whirlpool ‘Warhol’ from NASA
Unlike Andy Warhol’s famous silkscreen grids of repeating images rendered in different colors, the varying hues of this galaxy represent how its appearance changes in different wavelengths
TRAPPIST-1
Take a planet-hopping excursion through the TRAPPIST-1 system. Only 40 light-year away.
7 Earth-sized planets have been discovered
7 Earth-sized planets have been discovered in a Star system 40 lights-years away.
Helix Nebula in Infrared
An infrared image of the impressive Helix Nebula, from the robotic Spitzer Space Telescope.
A possible link between Primordial Black Holes and Dark Matter
A NASA scientist just announced a promising new theory about a possible link between primordial black holes and dark matter.
‘Light Echoes’ used to study Protoplanetary Disks
Astronomers used a method called “photo-reverberation,” also known as “light echoes,” to determine the distance from a star to the inner rim of its surrounding protoplanetary disk.
Most Distant Galaxy ever discovered
Hubble space telescope spots the most distant galaxy yet, existed just 400 million years after the Big Bang, breaking cosmic distance record.