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Space observatory

A space observatory is any instrument in outer space which is used for observation of distant planets, galaxies, and other outer space objects.

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Microbial Space Travel on a Molecular Scale

Nov. 4, 2020 —Galactic cosmic and solar UV radiation, extreme vacuum, temperature fluctuations: how can microbes exposed to these challenges in space survive? Scientists investigated how the space-surviving ...

Device Mimics Life's First Steps in Outer Space

Dec. 15, 2020 —A new device promises insight into how the building blocks of life form in outer space. It mimics how molecules come together in the freezing darkness of interstellar ...

Hubble Follows Shadow Play Around Planet-Forming Disk

May 4, 2023 —The young star TW Hydrae is playing 'shadow puppets' with scientists observing it with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. In 2017, astronomers reported discovering a shadow sweeping across ...

NASA's Webb Telescope Launches to See First Galaxies, Distant Worlds

Dec. 25, 2021 —NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launched Dec. 25 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, South America. The Webb observatory's mission is to seek the light from the first galaxies ...

Webb Captures Stellar Gymnastics in the Cartwheel Galaxy

Aug. 2, 2022 —NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy's central black ...

Webb Looks for Fomalhaut's Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More

May 8, 2023 —Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the first asteroid belt ever seen outside of our solar system ...

Can a Black Hole Fire Up the Cold Heart of the Phoenix Galaxy Cluster?

Aug. 31, 2020 —Radio astronomers have detected jets of hot gas blasted out by a black hole in the galaxy at the heart of the Phoenix Galaxy Cluster, located 5.9 billion light-years away in the constellation ...

Discovering Rare Red Spiral Galaxy Population from Early Universe With the James Webb Space Telescope

Dec. 13, 2022 —Morphology of galaxies contain important information about the process of galaxy formation and evolution. With its state-of-the-art resolution, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has now captured ...

Astronomer Reveals Never-Before-Seen Detail of the Center of Our Galaxy

May 27, 2021 —New research reveals, with unprecedented clarity, details of violent phenomena in the center of our ...

Making Better Measurements of the Composition of Galaxies

Apr. 23, 2023 —A study using data from telescopes on Earth and in the sky resolves a problem plaguing astronomers working in the infrared and could help make better observations of the composition of the universe ...

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New Type of Star Gives Clues to Mysterious Origin of Magnetars

Aug. 17, 2023 —磁星是最强的磁铁s in the Universe. These super-dense dead stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields can be found all over our galaxy but astronomers don't know exactly how they form. Now, using multiple telescopes around the world, ...

Possible Seasonal Climate Patterns on Early Mars

Aug. 9, 2023 —New observations of mud cracks made by the Curiosity Rover show that high-frequency, wet-dry cycling occurred in early Martian surface environments, indicating that the red planet may have once seen seasonal weather patterns or even flash ...

Sun 'Umbrella' Tethered to Asteroid Might Help Mitigate Climate Change

July 31, 2023 —地球正在迅速变暖,科学家们正在发展ping a variety of approaches to reduce the effects of climate change. An astronomer has proposed a novel approach -- a solar shield to reduce the amount of sunlight hitting Earth, combined with a ...

Listen to a Star 'Twinkle'

July 27, 2023 —Many people know that stars appear to twinkle because our atmosphere bends starlight as it travels to Earth. But stars also have an innate 'twinkle' -- caused by rippling waves of gas on their surfaces -- that is imperceptible to current Earth-bound ...

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Using Supernovae to Study Neutrinos' Strange Properties

Aug. 15, 2023 —In a new study, researchers have taken an important step toward understanding how exploding stars can help reveal how neutrinos, mysterious subatomic particles, secretly interact with ...

Hundred-Year Storms? That's How Long They Last on Saturn

Aug. 11, 2023 —Megastorms regularly appear on Saturn, marring the relatively bland surface before disappearing. But radio observations show that the storms have long-lasting effects deeper in the atmosphere, in ...

Could Artificially Dimming the Sun Prevent Ice Melt?

Aug. 11, 2023 —With methods of so-called geoengineering, the climate could theoretically be artificially influenced and cooled. Researchers have now investigated whether it would be possible to prevent the melting ...

十七年之后,飞船冷杉t Visit Home

Aug. 10, 2023 —On Aug. 12, 2023, NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft will pass between the Sun and Earth, marking the first Earth flyby of the nearly 17-year-old mission. The visit home brings a special chance for the ...

Physicists Demonstrate How Sound Can Be Transmitted Through Vacuum

Aug. 9, 2023 —A classic movie was once promoted with the punchline: 'In space, no one can hear you scream'. Physicists have now demonstrated, to the contrary, that in certain situations sound can be transmitted ...

Chemical Contamination on International Space Station Is out of This World

Aug. 8, 2023 —Concentrations of potentially harmful chemical compounds in dust collected from air filtration systems on the International Space Station (ISS) exceed those found in floor dust from many American ...

Webb Reveals Colors of Earendel, Most Distant Star Ever Detected

Aug. 9, 2023 —NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has followed up on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope of the farthest star ever detected in the very distant universe, within the first billion years after ...

Geomagnetic Field Protects Earth from Electron Showers

Aug. 4, 2023 —Geophysicists studied the activity of high energy electrons and clarified the unexpected protective role of the geomagnetic field surrounding the ...

Gas Streamers Feed Triple Baby Stars

Aug. 4, 2023 —New observations and simulations of three spiral arms of gas feeding material to three protostars forming in a trinary system have clarified the formation of multi-star ...

Scientists Discover the Highest-Energy Light Coming from the Sun

Aug. 3, 2023 —New research details the discovery of the highest-energy light ever observed from the sun. The international team behind the discovery also found that this type of light, known as gamma rays, is ...