When you look up at the night sky from your backyard, you might spot a few stars if you’re lucky. But father-of-three James Flanagan wanted a better view and pointed his telescope “in the middle of the road” into space to get a closer look. He has since seen a lunar mountain range, the dusty …
The moon made the ultimate photobomb this week when it moved past the sun and blocked the blazing surface with a dark silhouette under the gaze of a satellite. The GOES solar observation satellite and its SUVI (Solar Ultraviolet Imager) instrument captured the cosmic spectacle while observing the sun’s hot outer atmosphere, or corona. The …
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed molecular and chemical portrait of the sky of a distant planet, marking another first for the exoplanet science community. WASP-39b, otherwise known as Bocaprins, …
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Part of the far side of the Moon looms just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this image taken on day six of the Artemis I mission by a camera on the end of one of Orion’s solar arrays. The spacecraft entered the lunar sphere of influence on Sunday November 20, making the Moon, instead of …
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Six days after NASA’s Orion spacecraft launched to the moon, the gumball-shaped capsule reached its destination on Monday. Soaring 81 miles above the lunar surface, the spacecraft passed over historic Tranquility Base – the site of the Apollo 11 moon landing – and into the history books. Capturing views of Earth and the Moon, the …
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The protostar in the dark cloud L1527, shown in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is embedded in a cloud of material fueling its growth. Ejections from the star have cleared cavities above and below, the edges of which glow orange and blue in this infrared view. Credits: NASA, …
The L1527 protostar is embedded in a cloud of matter that fuels its growth. Last month, the James Webb Telescope gave us a spectacular new image of the Pillars of Creation, arguably the most famous image taken by Webb’s predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope, in 1995. Now the telescope gives astronomers for clues about the …
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Between black holes devouring small stars and vacant space embracing occupied nebulae, our universe’s caverns of darkness are often relieved by glimmers of light – a poetic juxtaposition perfectly apparent in one of the space telescope’s latest images. NASA Hubble. Last week, the agency released an ethereal view of galactic triplet Arp 248, also known …
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Between black holes devouring small stars and vacant space embracing occupied nebulae, our universe’s caverns of darkness are often relieved by glimmers of light – a poetic juxtaposition clearly apparent in one of the space telescope’s latest images. NASA Hubble. Last week, the agency released an ethereal view of galactic triplet Arp 248, also known …
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Between black holes devouring small stars and vacant space surrounding bustling, glowing nebulae, the caverns of darkness in our universe are often relieved by glimmers of light. Such a poetic juxtaposition is perfectly apparent in one of the latest images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Last week, the agency released an ethereal view of galactic …
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