It is the first direct visual evidence confirming the presence of the black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, at the center of the Milky Way, said the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in a release. The black hole is about 27,000 light-years away from Earth, and 4 million times m...
Journey to the Center of the Earth: Directed by Henry Levin. With Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker. An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
A Blue Bridge of Stars between Cluster Galaxies Earth at night 2012 V838 Light Echo - The Movie MUSE views the unusual galaxy NGC 4650A Flying through the young star cluster Westerlund 1 planetary nebula Abell 33 Four ALMA antennas on the Chajnantor Plain Panning across the planetary nebula Abe...
For example, we know that the origin of life on Earth probably also required other molecules such as lipids, responsible for the formation of the first cells. Therefore we should also focus on understanding how lipids could be formed from simpler precursors available in the interstellar medium.”...
the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. NuStar measures 10 m and will be just as long, but it had to fit into the much smaller and cheaper Pegasus launcher. The telescope is built around a folded-up truss, which will only grow to full length once NuSTAR is deployed in low-Earth orbit....
“The Earth is in the suburbs compared to the center of the galaxy, which is some 26,000 light-years away,” Ghez said. “The center of our galaxy has a density of stars 1 billion times higher than our part of the galaxy. The gravitational pull is so much stro...
Earth is located in a spiral-shaped galaxy approximately 100,000 light-years in diameter. Our solar system lies on the outskirts of the galaxy, about 30,000 light-years away from the galactic center (GC). From Earth’s perspective, the GC is located in the latter degrees of the sign Sag...
From our vantage point on Earth, the Magellanic Stream spreads across half of the night sky as it surges through space some 200,000 light-years away. That's far away, but still close enough for neighboring galaxies to feel the heat of any particularly violent eruptions from our galaxy's ...