Enlarge / Ligeia Mare, the second largest amount of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan. During its T85 Titan flight on July 24, 2012, the Cassini spacecraft recorded an unexpectedly bright reflection on the surface of Lake Kivu Lacus. The Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) data was interpreted as a roughness on the methane-ethane lake, which … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered what could be the earliest star clusters in the universe. JWST discovered the five proto-globular clusters – swarms of millions of stars held together by gravity – within the Cosmic Gems arc, a galaxy that formed just 460 million years after the Sun’s birth. Big bang. The … Read more
Enlarge / Enhanced Juno image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot in 2018. It is probably not the same one Cassini observed in the 17th century. The planet Jupiter is best known for its so-called Great Red Spot, a swirling vortex in the gas giant’s atmosphere that has existed since 1831. But how it originated and … Read more
Spiral galaxy, NGC 4303, seen from above. Pink, orange and red galactic long-range images. Elements … [+] of this image provided by NASA (combination of images observed by the Webb and Hubble telescopes) Getty Like most good science, large telescopes often create more riddles than they solve. That’s certainly been the case with NASA’s Webb … Read more
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS) is one of the defining features of the solar system. It is a huge storm that astronomers have observed since the 17th century. However, the date of founding and lifespan are subject to debate. Have we been seeing the same phenomenon all this time? The GRS is a giant anticyclonic … Read more
Supermassive black holes appear to be present at the center of every galaxy, dating back to some of the earliest galaxies in the universe. And we have no idea how they got there. It shouldn’t be possible for them to grow from supernova remnants to supermassive sizes so quickly. And we are not aware of … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Some of the spiral galaxies studied by the researchers in the study. Credit: Vicki Kuhn × close to Some of the spiral galaxies studied by the researchers in the study. Credit: Vicki Kuhn Scientists at the University of Missouri are … Read more
Some of the spiral galaxies studied by the researchers in the study. Credit: Vicki Kuhn Scientists at the University of Missouri are peering into the past and discovering new clues about the early universe. Because light takes a long time to travel through space, they can now see what galaxies looked like billions of years … Read more
Small, primordial black holes that formed in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang may have had company, in the form of even smaller supercharged black holes with the mass of a rhinoceros that quickly evaporated. A team of researchers has theorized that these tiny rhino black holes, which would represent an … Read more