by blundun | Aug 10, 2023 | Science
Observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope of Earendel – the farthest star ever detected – reveal a massive B-type star that is more than twice as hot as our sun and a million times more luminous. The star in the very distant universe, and a billion...
by blundun | Aug 9, 2023 | Science
A group of international researchers has discovered the highest-energy light ever observed from the sun. In a new paper published last week in the journal Physical Review Letters, scientists found the star had emitted surprisingly bright gamma rays that had an energy...
by blundun | Aug 8, 2023 | Science
While questions about the universe abound, a James Webb Space Telescope image has recently raised others. The telescope’s high-resolution Near-Infrared Camera snapshot of a pair of forming young stars also caught what appears to be a cosmic question mark toward...
by blundun | Aug 5, 2023 | Science
NASA has restored full communications with its Voyager 2 spacecraft following weeks of silence. The agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Friday that NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia, sent the “equivalent of an...
by blundun | Aug 4, 2023 | Science
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new images of the Ring Nebula. The images were released Thursday by an international team of astronomers, including three from the Canadian Western University’s Institute for Earth and Space Exploration. The...
by blundun | Aug 3, 2023 | Science
California winter wave heights may be increasing under climate change, researchers say. In a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, U.C. San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s researcher emeritus Peter Bromirski...
