Nasa’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) has concluded its mission, marking the end of a journey spanned over a decade. The telescope, which began as the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), captured its final image of the Fornax constellation in Southern California, a snapshot that is more than just a beautiful view, according … Read more
Nearly 10 months after its first successful test photos and six months after its first actual images, the European Space Agency (ESA) has finally released the first full-color science photos from its Euclid space telescope. The wait was worth it. Euclid, built by more than 2,000 scientists from 300 international institutes, is sharing the second … Read more
But there may be opportunities to indirectly spot the signatures of those gravitons. One strategy Vafa and his collaborators are pursuing draws on large-scale cosmological surveys that chart the distribution of galaxies and matter. In those distributions, there might be âsmall differences in clustering behavior,â Obied said, that would signal the presence of dark gravitons. … Read more
By Marcia Dunn | Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day. The record-breaking quasar shines 500 trillion times brighter than our sun. … Read more
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Steve Finkelstein (UT Austin), Micaela Bagley (UT Austin), Rebecca Larson (UT Austin) While the James Webb Space Telescope has been busy helping scientists solve some of the greatest mysteries of the early Universe, the powerful telescope has also found that many distant galaxies have flattened oval disk and tube-like shapes, … Read more
This image shows the galaxy EGSY8p7, a bright galaxy in the early Universe. This galaxy emits light and excited hydrogen atoms, known as Lyman-α emission, among other things. This galaxy was identified within a field of young galaxies studied by Webb in its CEERS survey. Previous observations had seen only one larger galaxy, rather than … Read more
NEW DELHI: A group of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to discover the oldest and farthest black hole ever observed. Dating from the dawn of the universe, the researchers found that the oldest black hole is feasting upon its host galaxy to death.According to research published in the journal Nature, the newly discovered … Read more
Bengaluru: India will be providing Rs 1,250 crore to the multinational Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project, whose telescope arrays or groups of telescopes will be built in Australia and South Africa. This week, the Union Cabinet approved the monetary contribution to the international astronomical collaboration involving more than a dozen countries. Once constructed, the telescopes will … Read more
In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified the largest and most distant reservoir of water ever detected in the known universe, reported Unilad. Two teams of astronomers made the remarkable find, revealing a colossal body of water that surpasses the combined volume of all water on Earth by 140 trillion times.Situated around a colossal feeding … Read more
Sushmita Sen, who considers herself a daddy’s girl, reflected on the highs and lows of her relationship with her father, Shubeer Sen, as she celebrated her 48th birthday. In a recent interview with Mid-Day, she shared the challenges they faced when her father’s dreams for her took a hit upon discovering her decision to participate … Read more