2,500 years ago, one of the most beautiful features of space was born: the South Ring Nebula. The nebula was vividly photographed by the Webb Space Telescope earlier this year, and astronomers now think they know exactly how a star’s violent explosion took place, leaving the elegant nebula in its wake . The star that …
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The dish destroys the day it collapses.Photo: RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP (Getty Images) It happened in less than 10 seconds, two years ago today: the 300 meters of the Arecibo observatory the satellite dish collapsed, eliminating one of the world’s most renowned sources of radio sightings. During its 57 years of operation in northern Puerto Rico, the …
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Drawing: Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Center of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of Technology On February 11, astronomers saw a distant flash of light that seemed to come from a source as bright as a quadrillion suns. They alerted other scientists to the event, and several telescopes quickly swung around to focus …
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In what researchers at the James Webb Space Telescope call a “brand new chapter in astronomy”, the observatory has helped locate two first galaxies, one of which may contain the most distant starlight ever seen. In a tweet, the international team said galaxies of unexpected brightness could fundamentally alter what is known about the very …
