The article focuses on the high-resolution observations by the U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration's (NASA) Chandra X-ray Observatory which reveals that influx from the supermassive black hole of the ...
Found: First Actively Forming Galaxy as Lightweight as Young Milky Way For the first time,NASA’s James Webb Space Telescopehas detected and “weighed” a distantgalaxyfrom about 600 million years after theBig Bang. Remarkably, this galaxy appears to have a mass similar to what the Milky Way...
The James Webb Space Telescope captured an image of thedense center of the Milky Way, a chaotic region of space, NASA said on Monday. The image features Sagittarius C, a star-forming region about 300 light years from the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A. Some 500...
The image shows the inner part of our galaxy, which hosts the largest and densest collection of giant molecular clouds in the Milky Way. These vast, cool clouds contain enough dense gas and dust to form tens of millions of stars like the Sun. The view spans a part of the sky about ...
Celestial magnetic fields are notoriously difficult to observe. SOFIA'snewest instrument, the High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera-Plus, or HAWC+, uses far-infrared light to observe celestial dust grains, which align perpendicular to magnetic field lines. From these results, astronomers can infer ...
then rigorously tested by finding the mass of simulatedgalaxiesfrom EAGLE and the Auriga simulations – an independent suite of high resolution simulations. This ensures that our mass estimate is robust and has realistic errors (something the field sometimes struggles with due to analytic assumptions)...
Elvidge, along with Kimberly Baugh of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, is part of a team that just updated a global atlas of light pollution published today in the journalScience Advances. Using high-resolution satellite data an...
The first unambiguous evidence for a giant halo of hot gas around a nearby, spiral galaxy much like our own Milky Way was found by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This discovery may lead to a better understanding of our own Galaxy, as well the structure and evolution of...
It is this uncertainty that has now been lifted thanks to INTEGRAL’s very high spectral resolution. The peak of the emission from 26Al was found to be shifted towards higher energies east of the galactic centre and towards lower energies on the west side. These observations are consistent wit...
Astronomers using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, are helping to trace the shape of our Milky Way galaxy's spiral arms. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Imagine trying to create a map of your house while confined to only the...