Animals Spellbinding shots capture the Milky Way in all its glory editor1, July 20, 2024 These stunning photographs are some of the winners of this year’s Milky Way Photographer of the Year competition 2024 MILKY WAY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR/TOM RAE In the right place at the right time, cast your eyes to the sky and you may see something awe-inspiring. This is the feeling… Continue Reading
Animals JWST spotted an incredible number of supernovae in the early universe editor1, July 20, 2024 Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have increased the number of known supernovae in the early universe by a factor of 10 and found the most distant one ever confirmed Many of the circled objects represent previously unknown supernovae NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, JADES Collaboration Astronomers using the James Webb… Continue Reading
Biology Stunning JWST image proves we were right about how young stars form editor1, July 20, 2024 It has long been thought that young stars forming near each other will be aligned in terms of their rotation, and observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have offered confirmation The Serpens Nebula: aligned jets are visible as a series of red streaks in the top left corner NASA,… Continue Reading
Earth China’s Chang’e 6 returns with first rocks from far side of the moon editor1, July 20, 2024 The Chinese lunar spacecraft Chang’e 6 has touched down in Inner Mongolia, bringing back to Earth the first rock samples from the moon’s far side The Chang’e 6 probe being retrieved in Siziwang Banner in Inner Mongolia, China Xinhua/Shutterstock China’s Chang’e 6 spacecraft has returned to Earth, bringing back the first chunks… Continue Reading
Earth What would happen if Earth was the centre of the solar system? editor1, July 20, 2024 Geocentrism, the idea that everything in the universe revolves around Earth, has long been disproven, but this episode of Dead Planets Society is bringing it back with cataclysmic consequences Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping the… Continue Reading
Earth Moon of Saturn has an equivalent of freshwater rivers and salty oceans editor1, July 20, 2024 The liquid hydrocarbon seas, lakes and rivers on Titan have varying compositions and signs of active tides or currents The north polar region of Titan, imaged using radar signals from the Cassini probe, with hydrocarbon seas coloured blue NASA / JPL-Caltech / Agenzia Spaziale Italiana / USGS Our most detailed… Continue Reading