By means of Eric Williamson, University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Sciences June 28, 2024 This is an artist’s rendering of a Hyper-X research vehicle under scramjet power in free flight after separating from its booster rocket. New research into hypersonic jets could transform space travel by making scramjet engines more reliable and … Read more
In this image of the Serpens Nebula taken with the near-infrared camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found a group of aligned protostellar outflows within one small region (the upper left corner). In the Webb image, these jets are indicated by bright clumpy streaks that appear red, which are shock waves from … Read more
Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery using NASA’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). They observed twoin disks and parallel jets erupting from a few young stars in the star system WL20, located more than 400 light-years away in the rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud complex. This unexpected finding provides new … Read more
Astronomers have had a big surprise with the discovery that a star known as WL 20S, which has been studied extensively since the 1970s, is actually not one but a pair of stars. The discovery of the surprising twin was made with the James Webb Space Telescope during a survey of a group of young … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked trusted source proofread OK! Left, a mid-infrared image of the rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud complex taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, with the focus pointing toward the galaxy WL20. On the right, WL20 expands to reveal an artist’s impression of this new discovery. Astronomers couldn’t believe … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. from Bologna/F. Ubertosi; Deployment radio: NSF/NRAO/VLBA; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Cloud × close to Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. from Bologna/F. Ubertosi; Deployment radio: NSF/NRAO/VLBA; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Cloud Huge black holes shoot powerful particles into space – and then … Read more