The Webb Space Telescope just turned its infrared Watch a exoplanet and found dense clouds swirling in the atmosphere of this weird world. The planet—VHS 1256b—has a 22-hour day but is extraordinarily far from the two stars it orbits, which themselves orbit close to each other at the center of the system. Astronomers used Webb’s…
Each year, approximately 1,000 Type Ia supernovae erupt in the sky. These stellar outbursts brighten and then fade in such a repeatable pattern that they’re used like “standard candles” – objects so uniformly bright that astronomers can infer the distance to one of them by their appearance. Our understanding of the cosmos is based on…
In a bid to learn even more about our mysterious and massive universe, NASA is teaming up with the Department of Energy on an ambitious moon project. The two agencies announcement that they will develop and deploy a radio telescope, called Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment – Night (LuSEE-Night), to the far side of the Moon…
