Breathtaking new map of the X-ray Universe0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 23, 2020
Behold the hot, energetic Universe.
Behold the hot, energetic Universe.
Perhaps the most iconic dinosaur is Tyrannosaurus rex, a massive predator that lived in what is now North America.
A new all-sky image from the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) space observatory contains over one million objects, about half of which are new to astronomers.
Two stunning images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope show layers of gas and dust as they eject, swirl, and interact between two nebulas known as NGC 6302 and NGC 7027.
The Red Planet’s surface has been visited by eight NASA spacecraft. The ninth will be the first that includes gathering Mars samples for future return to Earth.
Proposed 100km circular tunnel would be four times as big and six times as powerful as LHC
Using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton observatory, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and ground-based telescopes, astronomers have detected a hard X-ray burst, a long-lived outburst and a number of strong and short radio pulses from an infant neutron star with a magnetic field some 70 quadrillion times stronger than that of Earth. Named Swift J1818.0-1607, the object emitted X-rays about 16,000 years ago, when it was about 240 years old.
Streams of plasma shooting away from galaxies flare at the ends
It’s hardly the stuff of little green men, but a mysterious balloon-like object seen floating across the skies of northern Japan has captured national attention, even prompting questions to the government.
Signal from 500 million light years away is the first periodic pattern of radio bursts detected