Discovery Alert: With Six New Worlds, 5,500 Discovery Milestone …
2024年7月16日 · On Aug. 24, 2023, more than three decades after the first confirmation of planets beyond our own solar system, scientists announced the discovery of six new exoplanets, stretching that number to 5,502. From zero exoplanet confirmations to over 5,500 in just a few decades, this new milestone marks another major step in the journey to […]
NASA Accelerates Space Exploration, Earth Science for All in 2024
2024年12月6日 · Pioneered quantum discovery using the Cold Atom Lab, including producing the first dual-species Bose-Einstein Condensates in space, the first dual-species atom interferometers in space, and demonstrating the first ultra-cool quantum sensor for the first time in space. Announced two new consortia to carry out ground-based research investigations ...
13 record-breaking space discoveries of 2023 | Space
2023年12月24日 · The past 12 months have seen a host of new astronomical records broken, from exploding stars to faraway black holes.
NASA’s Webb Confirms Its First Exoplanet
2023年1月11日 · Researchers confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the same size as our own, clocking in at 99% of Earth’s diameter.
First-of-Its-Kind Detection Made in Striking New Webb Image
2024年6月20日 · For the first time, a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped to directly image has been captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). In this stunning image of the Serpens Nebula, the discovery lies in the northern area (seen at the upper left) of this young, nearby star-forming region.
Discovery Alert: An Earth-sized World and Its Ultra-cool Star
2024年5月15日 · Stars like our Sun burn for about 10 billion years before turning into hungry red giants devouring any planets too nearby. M dwarfs keep burning for 100 billion years or more, perhaps offering a foothold for life, and an even longer window for life to develop.
Webb Reveals Colors of Earendel, Most Distant Star Ever Detected
2023年8月8日 · NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has followed up on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope of the farthest star ever detected in the very distant universe, within the first billion years after the big bang. Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals the star to be a massive B-type star more than twice as hot as our Sun ...
Astronomers Unveil Their Favorite Discovery of 2024 - Newsweek
3 天之前 · The observational discovery paper from 2024 was published here and my explanatory paper from 2024 (referring to my work from 30 years ago) was published here. Stock image.
12 James Webb Space Telescope findings that changed our …
2023年12月23日 · In September, the JWST discovered methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a fairly nearby exoplanet named K2-18 b, which circles a cool star 120 light-years from Earth and is larger than...
‘The Brick’ is at the center of our galaxy. An unexpected new …
2023年12月7日 · A box-shaped cloud of opaque dust that lies at the center of our galaxy has long perplexed scientists, and new observations are deepening the mystery — possibly upending what’s known about how ...