The Universe

IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
Marshall Space Flight Center
The Universe
On Dec. 9, astronomers and physicists will commemorate two years of landmark X-ray science by NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission. IXPE is the joint NASA-Italian Space Agency mission to study polarized X-ray light.
Posted December 8, 2023
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Science Mission Directorate
The Universe
This Hubble image features a massive cluster of brightly glowing galaxies, first identified as Abell 3192. Like all galaxy clusters, this one is suffused with hot gas that emits powerful X-rays, and it is enveloped in a halo of invisible dark matter. All this unseen material – not to mention the many galaxies visible in this image […]
Posted December 1, 2023
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Hubble Space Telescope
Marshall Space Flight Center
Neutron Stars
Pulsars
Spitzer Space Telescope
The Universe
A group of dead stars known as “spider pulsars” are obliterating companion stars within their reach. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory of the globular cluster Omega Centauri is helping astronomers understand how these spider pulsars prey on their stellar companions.
Posted November 30, 2023
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Exoplanets
Goddard Space Flight Center
Missions
Nebulae
Planetary Nebulae
Stars
Terrestrial Exoplanets
The Universe
An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and other molecules in the highly irradiated inner, rocky-planet-forming regions of a disk in one of the most extreme environments in our galaxy.
Posted November 30, 2023
Exoplanets
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
The Universe
Six “sub-Neptune” exoplanets orbit their star in a kind of rhythmic dance – one easily set to music.
Posted November 30, 2023
Astrophysics
Binary Stars
Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Gamma Rays
Goddard Space Flight Center
Neutron Stars
Pulsars
Stars
The Universe
A new catalog produced by a French-led international team of astronomers shows that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 294 gamma-ray-emitting pulsars, while another 34 suspects await confirmation. This is 27 times the number known before the mission launched in 2008.
Posted November 28, 2023
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Goddard Space Flight Center
Protostars
Stars
The Milky Way
The Universe
The latest image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail, including never-before-seen features astronomers have yet to explain. The star-forming region, named Sagittarius C (Sgr C), is about 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.
Posted November 20, 2023
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Spiral Galaxies
The Universe
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy NGC 941, which lies about 55 million light-years from Earth. Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) collected the data that created this image.
Posted November 17, 2023
General
Astrophysics
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies
Marshall Space Flight Center
The Milky Way
The Universe
For millennia, musicians have looked to the heavens for inspiration. Now a new collaboration is enabling actual data from NASA telescopes to be used as the basis for original music that can be played by humans.
Posted November 15, 2023
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Active Galaxies
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Dark Matter & Dark Energy
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Goddard Space Flight Center
Missions
Origin & Evolution of the Universe
Science & Research
Stars
Supernovae
The Universe
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will pair space-based observations with a broad field of view to unveil the dynamic cosmos in ways that have never been possible before. “Roman will work in tandem with NASA observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, which are designed to zoom in on […]
Posted November 14, 2023
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