Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic phenomenon—an enormous galaxy, LEDA 1313424, rippling with nine star-filled rings after being struck by a much smaller blue dwarf galaxy.This incredible sight resembles a celestial bullseye and has more rings than ever detected in any galaxy.The team’s findings were published on Tuesday in The Astrophysical Journal … Read more
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made an extraordinary discovery by detecting emissions from a galaxy located over 13 billion light-years away. This breakthrough provides a rare opportunity to study the universe’s conditions just 400 million years after the Big Bang.A window into the early universeAccording to media reports, the galaxy, named GHZ2 (also … Read more
The Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a mesmerizing new image of the Orion Nebula. It is a star-forming region, and its distance from Earth is about 1,500 light-years. This breathtaking view focuses on two young protostars, HOPS 150 and HOPS 153, actively shaping their cosmic surroundings. These stellar infants, emitting tremendous jets of energy and … Read more
Nasa released a striking new image of the star cluster NGC 602 on Tuesday. The image reveals the cluster’s distinctive shape, which resembles a ‘holiday wreath.’ Nasa describes the wreath-like appearance as symbolic of the cycle of life and death. The image was captured using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra … Read more
An illustration showing a pair of closely orbiting brown dwarfs (Photo: Space.com) In a recent discovery, researchers have revealed that what was once thought to be a single brown dwarf is, in fact, two brown dwarfs orbiting each other in a rare binary system. This new insight into the celestial body, Gliese 229B, has astonished … Read more
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed that supermassive black holes have the ability to deprive their host galaxies of the gas and dust needed for star formation.This groundbreaking discovery was made by an international team of researchers, co-led by the University of Cambridge, and marks a significant advancement in understanding the complex … Read more
NEW DELHI: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) Astronomers using the Nasa/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a stunning image of LEDA 42160, a galaxy situated approximately 52 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. This dwarf galaxy, among many others, navigates through the dense gas within the vast Virgo cluster of galaxies, experiencing … Read more
NEW DELHI: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of Nasa has provided astronomers with groundbreaking data, leading to fresh insights regarding the smallest stars in the cosmos. According to recent findings, these diminutive stellar bodies challenge our existing understanding of star formation and behavior.During an international conference on astrophysics, lead researcher Dr Emily Roper was … Read more
NEW DELHI: The James Webb Space telescope detected a “dead” galaxy that ceased star formation when the universe was only 5% of its current age. The star formation ended approximately 13.1 billion years ago in the galaxy observed, just 700 million years after the Big Bang.This discovery by Webb telescope, operational since 2022, marks the … Read more
