Approximately 2,200 light-years from where you’re sitting lie the Cheerio-shaped remains of a dying star — remnants that form a structure famously known as the Ring Nebula. And on Monday (Aug. 21), scientists announced...
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NASA will get just over $24 billion this year, if Congress is able to pass a newly devised omnibus spending bill. The funding package, which allocates a total of $1.5 trillion throughout the government, would give NASA about...
After 10 years fighting back photons in its peripheral vision, a NASA space telescope now has a way to use “nuisance light” to potentially increase its science productivity. NASA’s NuSTAR (Nuclear...
One of the James Webb Telescope first studies will seek to tell us more about 19 nearby galaxies and how they fit into our neighborhood’s history. The infrared images taken from deep space will allow Webb telescope...
The James Webb Space Telescope key pointing instrument fixed on to a star for the first time, two space agencies reported. The Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS), a contribution from Honeywell on behalf of the Canadian Space Agency...
“Optical lattice atomic clock are already the best clocks in the world, and here we get this level of performance that no one has seen before,” Shimon Kolkowitz, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physics professor and...
While normal stars have surfaces composed of hydrogen and helium, the stars discovered by Werner and his colleagues have their surfaces covered with carbon and oxygen, the ashes of helium burning — an exotic composition for...
The James Webb Telescope launched on Dec. 25 and has spent its time in space so far executing a complicated sequence of deployments to unfold the telescope to its final configuration. On Thursday (Jan. 6), the...