... system. While Cassini helped solve some planetary riddles, it also helped create some. Using its Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) – an instrument that separates incoming light by its wavelength or frequency – Cassini was tasked with...
... to study the matter swirling deep inside this disc, the researchers used the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) instrument. This diagnostic tool divides the light from an object into its many individual...
NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission launched at 1 am EST (06:00 GMT) Thursday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy ...
... sensitivity of the instrument and are sharp,” says Antoine Pommerol, co-investigator of the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System at the University of Bern. “It seems to be well-focused and the signal level seems to be close to prediction.” The...
...system believed to be just 40,000 years old, and take an image of its rotating accretion disk. ALMA, the most expensive radio telescope...and therefore prevent its ability to gather matter. The image clearly shows that the disk is, indeed, spinning. Jet...
...star. “Our team has now been able to take the first image of two gas giant companions that are orbiting a young, solar... it as a “very young version of our own Sun.” These images were possible thanks to the high performance of the SPHERE instrument on ...