30 November 2018
All of the starlight ever produced calculated by scientists
... background light (EBL) by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope; a feat that has never been done before, said...location of 739 blazars used in the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope’s measurement of the extragalactic background light (EBL). The ...
08 March 2019
Astronomers weigh the galaxy with Hubble and Gaia
... of the Milky Way presents a problem for a lot of cosmological questions,” added Roeland van der Marel of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland. Accurately determining the mass for the Milky Way will now...
20 March 2019
Webb telescope partly blamed for WFIRST funding cut
... it has been a challenge for me, as your NASA administrator, to go up to [Capitol] Hill and talk about the James Webb Space Telescope,” said the agency’s top official, Jim Bridenstine, in a speech March 11. “Some of you might have seen those...
01 May 2019
Evidence for first confirmed exomoon under question
... a small team of scientists from Columbia University in the City of New York, who while searching through Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data, found evidence that a Jovian-sized gas giant called Kepler-1625b, was sending out...
26 July 2019
Three massive black holes caught in the act of merging
... years). SDSS J0849+1114 has been observed before, but comprehensive new observations with the Hubble Space telescope, Chandra X-ray, and the Very Large Array (VLA) located in central New Mexico, by a team whose lead...
23 June 2021
Exoplanets with Earth-like biospheres may be rare
... hope,” Giovanni Covone of the University of Naples, lead author of the study says. When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launches later this year, it will have the sensitivity to study the atmospheres of exoplanets and to search...
