Tag: space telescope

The messy death of a star

Nano TechnologyDecember 8, 2022

Dec 09, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Around 2500 years ago, a star ejected most of its gas forming the beautiful Southern Ring Nebula, NGC 3132,...

NASA confirms NEO Surveyor for 2028 launch

AerospaceDecember 7, 2022

WASHINGTON — NASA has approved for development a space telescope to search for near Earth objects as some members of Congress lobby the agency...

China is considering expanding its Tiangong space station

AerospaceDecember 7, 2022

HELSINKI — China is already considering adding modules to its recently-completed Tiangong space station complex, according to a senior space official. China recently completed construction...

Astronomers observe intra-group light – the elusive glow between distant galaxies

Nano TechnologyNovember 24, 2022

Nov 24, 2022 (Nanowerk News) An international team of astronomers have turned a new technique onto the faint light between galaxies – known as...

Astronomers observe innermost structure of quasar jet

Nano TechnologyNovember 22, 2022

Nov 22, 2022 (Nanowerk News) At the heart of nearly every galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole. But not all supermassive black holes are...

Webb reveals an exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before

Nano TechnologyNovember 22, 2022

Nov 22, 2022 (Nanowerk News) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just scored another first: a molecular and chemical profile of a distant world’s skies. While...

‘Great observatories’ – the next generation of NASA’s space telescopes, and their impact on the next century of observational astronomy

QuantumNovember 22, 2022

Astronomers have turned their eye towards the future following the US National Academies’ latest decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics, which...