Artist’s impression of neutron stars merging, producing gravitational waves and resulting in a kilonova. Credit: Mark…
Week in images: 25-29 March 2024
Week in images: 25-29 March 2024 Discover our week through the lens Source link
They Can’t See the Total Solar Eclipse, but LightSound Will Help Them Hear It
On Aug. 21, 2017, Kiki Smith’s teenage sons giddily prepared to watch the partial solar eclipse…
New cataclysmic variable discovered by astronomers
Finding chart for XMM 152737 with North at top and East to the left. The image…
Hubble Finds a Field of Stars
The reason that Hubble can observe objects of such wildly different sizes is two-fold. First, the…
NASA Center to Debut Postcards at Eclipse Event
At Total Eclipse Fest 2024, a celestial celebration from April 6-8 at Great Lakes Science Center…
Neutron Stars are Jetting Material Away at 40% the Speed of Light
It’s a well known fact that black holes absorb anything that falls into them. Often before…
Earth from Space: The Amazon plume
The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us over northern Brazil, where the Amazon River meets the Atlantic…
Earth from Space: The Amazon plume
The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us over northern Brazil, where the Amazon River meets the Atlantic…
ESA – No zoom
This image shows a globular cluster known as NGC 1651. Like the object in another recent Picture of the Week,…