NASA still has plenty of cool projects afoot in the real world—did you hear about that asteroid-redirecting test? Or those space-friendly cameras?—but it’s also trying to stir imaginations in fantastically creative ways, too. Enter The Lost Universe, the agency’s first-ever tabletop roleplaying game. What Will VR Solve, Anyway? Its first what now? Yes, a TTRPG … Read more
The Einstein Probe, an X-ray telescope managed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, will be ready to launch next month. The probe will look for transient events in X-ray light and try to answer some fundamental questions about black holes and gravitational waves. Gizmodo’s Top Five Gadgets of 2023 Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer, and Webb. Undoubtedly … Read more
Last month, astronomers focused the Webb Space Telescope on the galaxy MRG-M0138 and found something surprising: a supernova in the ancient universe, magnified for your viewing pleasure by the gravitational lensed galaxy. First Full-Color Images From Webb Space Telescope When stars die, they release a huge amount of energy which astronomers can observe as a … Read more
The Hubble Space Telescope just ogled an exoplanet passing in front of a star in a triple system, revealing the nearby world’s mass. Webb Telescope Images the Pillars of Creation The world is named LTT 1445Ac, and it was discovered in 2022 by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The world orbits a red dwarf … Read more
You probably know Jupiter, the rotund fifth planet from the Sun, as orange and tan with a big red splotch. But the Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged the gas giant in ultraviolet light, giving the world a very different look. First Full-Color Images From Webb Space Telescope At UV wavelengths, Jupiter’s clouds appear in bright pinks, … Read more
The Hubble House Telescope pictures the cosmos from low Earth orbit, however an abundance of synthetic satellites circle the planet at larger altitudes. That’s develop into an irritation lately, because the 1000’s of units go away brilliant streaks in Hubble imagery. Astronomers May Quickly Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their View Now, researchers with … Read more
For greater than three years, NASA’s Spitzer House Telescope has been idly coasting across the Solar whereas locked in a retirement protected mode, whereas its successor, the Webb Telescope, took over its cosmic remark duties. An upcoming servicing mission, nonetheless, might give the previous telescope a brand new objective: defending Earth from harmful asteroids. Astronomers May … Read more