3+ day, 12+ min ago   (213+ words) NASA's James Webb Space Telescope imaged the central region of the Chameleon I dark molecular cloud, about 630 light-years away, revealing the coldest, darkest ices ever measured inside a star-forming cloud. Beyond simple water ice, astronomers identified frozen ammonia — naturally present…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (565+ words) starlust.org NASA's Hubble images 'superbubble' in Milky Way satellite galaxy—and it's helping study how stars are born NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking image of a nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud—one of the dwarf…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (216+ words) Scientists nicknamed this rusty-colored cloud of gas and dust, located inside the Trifid Nebula, the "Cosmic Sea Lemon" for its resemblance to a sea slug gliding through space. In April 2026, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope compared a new image of the…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (204+ words) Nearly a thousand years ago, astronomers witnessed a supernova so bright it was visible in daylight for weeks. Its remnant, the Crab Nebula, has continued expanding 6,500 light-years away ever since. In 2024, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revisited the nebula, capturing a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (171+ words) As per NASA, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists study some of the biggest mysteries of the universe, which include “dark matter, dark energy, exoplanets, and almost anything from our own solar system to galaxies at the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (282+ words) We can look deep into space and see billions of stars, galaxies, and other cosmic objects. But all of that visible matter makes up only a small part of what the universe is believed to contain. Much of the universe…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (541+ words) Have you ever wondered why the night sky appears to be dark with only a few stars across it? There are trillions of stars in our universe, and at least 100 billion planets across the Milky Way galaxy alone. For a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (204+ words) The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new infrared look at Arp 263, an irregular galaxy about 25 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. First discovered in 1784, the galaxy was later included in a 1966 catalog of the universe's strangest galaxies…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (310+ words) Scientists believe that the expansion of the universe is accelerating instead of slowing down, and dark energy may be the cause of it. Roman’s broad view will collect infrared from a vast area of the sky potentially from a billion…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (262+ words) Nancy Grace Roman was born on May 16, 1925, at a time when there was little to no encouragement for women to take up science. “If I hadn’t been stubborn, I would’ve been talked out of it years earlier,” she joked later…...