13+ hour, 27+ min ago  (805+ words) Astronomers have captured one of the clearest views yet of a "reborn" black hole in action, revealing a dramatic outburst that has been compared to a "cosmic volcano" spreading across nearly one million light-years of space. The discovery centers on…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago  (52+ words) See amazing imagery of the Carina Nebula as captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center astrophysicist Amber Straughn explains. Credit: NASA. .. See amazing imagery of the Carina Nebula as captured by the James Webb Space…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (80+ words) The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the most distant single star found yet. It took the light from the star 12. 9 billion light years to reach Earth. Learn how it was discovered. Credit; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center The…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago  (290+ words) New research could lead to insights about the formation of the universe's first stars Findings from the survey are published'in the journal'Nature Astronomy.' SDSS J0715-7334 was formed from a gas cloud that had recently interacted with the material ejected by a…...

20+ hour, 4+ min ago  (311+ words) The James Webb Space Telescope found unexpectedly chemically mature galaxies. Turns out those JWST results match predictions of the Space-Phase Theory. Students of physics can visit jamesebeecham. com and click the video that explains the six features of Space-Phase which…...

10+ hour, 34+ min ago  (511+ words) That absence of metals is the critical detail. Every generation of stars after the first one incorporated heavier elements forged in prior stellar explosions. Finding a source that emits only helium and hydrogen lines, with nothing else, is precisely the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (689+ words) Juno orbiter measurements show power of bolts, shedding light on convection on Jupiter and thunderstorm-associated phenomena on Earth image: NASA's Juno spacecraft passed north-to-south (yellow track) over Jupiter's atmosphere on 17 August 2022, detecting a cluster of radio pulses from lightning (cyan…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago  (479+ words) The earlier a star formed in the universe, the fewer elements other than hydrogen and helium it contains. Now the most pristine found so far has been discovered. A research group, including several students from the University of Chicago, has…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (212+ words) Why are black holes heavier than 45 solar masses so rare? Project lead, Tong, explained that the team's analysis of gravitational wave signals " the ripples in the fabric of spacetime " detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatory afforded evidence of the existence of…...

13+ hour, 53+ min ago  (813+ words) The clearest evidence yet of a missing band of black-hole masses has emerged, with the gap beginning near 45 times the Sun's mass. The research sharpens a long-running mystery about how the biggest stellar black holes form and why some of…...