NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found a galaxy with a ‘LOPSIDED’ appearance because it’s being stretched and twisted by a neighboring star system The Hubble Space Telescope found galaxy NGC 2276 is being twisted by a neighboring galaxy Because of gravity, NGC 2300 is impacting NGC 22275 and causing it to ‘strangely lopsided appearance,’ pulling its outer edges … Read more
The Kepler mission has spotted thousands of exoplanets since 2014, with 30 planets less than twice the size of Earth now known to orbit within the habitable zones of their stars. Launched from Cape Canaveral on March 7th 2009, the Kepler telescope has helped in the search for planets outside of the solar system. It … Read more
A small gas exoplanet may have lost its atmosphere billions of years ago, but then gained a second one through volcanic activity, according to astronomers. The planet, GJ 1132 b, is thought to have begun as a gaseous world, similar to Jupiter or Saturn but smaller than Neptune, with a thick hydrogen blanket of atmosphere. … Read more
NASA reveals plans to launch SphereX telescope in 2024 to search for clues about the Big Bang and signs of life beyond Earth Nasa’s SphereX telescope will launch between June 2024 and April 2025 During its two-year mission, SphereX will map the entire sky four times The mission aims to find evidence of what happened straight … Read more
China will permit foreign astronomers to use its 1,600-foot radio telescope for the first time this summer. The Five-hundred meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is the world’s largest single-disc radio observatory, used for spotting cosmic phenomena and searching for extraterrestrial life. It’s one of the only ‘Sky Eyes’ remaining after the decommissioning and collapse … Read more
World’s largest solar telescope in Hawaii releases its first image of 10,000-mile wide sunspot that could fit the entire Earth inside The Inouye Solar Telescope captured its first image of a sunspot The image achieved a spatial resolution about 2.5 times higher than others The sunspot measures 10,000 miles across and its center is is 7,500F … Read more
NASA’s Hubble telescope spots the ‘Greater Pumpkin’ galaxies 120 MILLION light-years from Earth, complete with glowing eyes and a carved crooked smile NASA’s Hubble telescope captured a spooky scene 120 million light-years away Deemed the ‘Greater Pumpkin’, the image is of two galaxies colliding The aging red stars are creating an orange hue that resembles … Read more
NASA has produced musical marvels from our galaxy using a technique known as sonification – the process of translating data into sound. The project turns X-ray, visible and infrared light data – gathered from far-flung parts of the Milky Way by three NASA telescopes – into audio. By translating the digital data, which takes the form … Read more
Europe’s largest telescope captures stunning images of the sun showing intricate details of sunspots and plasma unlike anything researchers had seen before Europe’s largest telescope captured its first high-resolution images of the sun It snapped solar magnetic fields taken at a wavelength 516 nanometers The telescope was also able to take a picture sunspots at 430 … Read more
Rescuers save windsurfer ten miles from land after resident spots him in trouble while looking through a telescope from their house The resident in Anstruther, Fife, dialled 999 and asked for the Coastguard Both RNLI lifeboats from Anstruther were launched to search for the windsurfer He can be heard in video footage telling his rescuers … Read more