Tag: Astronomical discoveries

Jupiter's Gigantic Past RevealedJupiter, the biggest planet in our solar system, used to be a whole lot bigger. Like, twice the size it is now kind of bigger. And get this, its magnetic field...

The James Webb Telescope recently unveiled a groundbreaking image of the Flame Nebula that has sent ripples through the world of astronomy. Located a staggering 1,400 light-years away in the constellation Orion, this star-forming...

More than 1 million "interstellar objects" the size of the Statue of Liberty could be drifting unseen in the outer solar system right now, new simulations suggest. These hefty cosmic interlopers, originating from our...

Astronaut Captures Stunning Images of Nearby Galaxies from SpaceX CapsuleIn a breathtaking display of space photography, astronaut Don Pettit captured a mesmerizing view of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds from the...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently made a significant discovery in the early universe by identifying three massive "red monster" galaxies. These galaxies, each 100 billion times the mass of our sun, were...

A stunning image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the spiral galaxy IC 3225, located 100 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. This galaxy appears to have been launched from a...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a fascinating discovery of a unique "inside-out" galaxy in the early universe. This galaxy, known as JADES-GS+53.18343?27.79097, emerged just 700 million years after the Big Bang...

Astronomers have found that the Taurid Meteoroid Complex, a swarm of interplanetary dust, rocks, comets, and asteroids responsible for meteor showers and famous impacts on Earth, is not as dangerous as previously believed. The...

China's new Qianfan, or "Thousand Sails," satellites have caught the attention of astronomers due to their bright reflections back to Earth. These satellites, part of a proposed megaconstellation by Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST),...

NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope has discovered two new streams of superheated gas in a distant galaxy cluster called Zwicky 8338 (Z8338), which is located about 670 million light-years away from Earth. These streams of...