During the first full week of May, a barrage of large solar flares created the strongest solar storm to reach Earth in two decades.
Space
Hubble Finds Hungry Black Hole Twisting Captured Star Into Donut Shape
Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by and then grab it and rip it apart.
Christmas Launch Now for the James Webb Space Telescope
Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- Weather is nudging the James Webb Space Telescope from December 24 to a Christmas Day launch. NASA and Arianespace successfully completed the Launch Readiness Review for the James Webb Space Telescope on Dec. 21. The team authorized the Ariane 5 rocket carrying Webb to rollout and the start[Read More…]
There’s a Lunar Eclipse Coming May 26: Everything You Need to Know
Palm Coast, FL-(ENEWSPF)- No one has seen a total lunar eclipse since January 20–21, 2019, but the drought is finally ending. Viewers in the western half of North America, western South America, East Asia, and Australia will see the Moon darken and turn a reddish hue on the morning of[Read More…]
How Many Habitable Planets Are Out There?
Mountain View, CA-(ENEWSPF)- Thanks to new research using data from the Kepler space telescope, it’s estimated that there could be as many as 300 million potentially habitable planets in our galaxy. Some could even be pretty close, with several likely within 30 light-years of our Sun. The findings will be[Read More…]
Christmas Week: Worlds Will Align for Spectacular Heavenly Sight
Jupiter, Saturn will look like double planet for first time since Middle Ages Houston, TX-(ENEWSPF)- Just after sunset on the evening of Dec. 21, Jupiter and Saturn will appear closer together in Earth’s night sky than they have been since the Middle Ages, offering people the world over a celestial[Read More…]
Astronomers Discover New “Fossil Galaxy” Buried Deep Within the Milky Way
SDSS-(ENEWSPF)- Scientists working with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys’ Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) have discovered a “fossil galaxy” hidden in the depths of our own Milky Way. This result, published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, may shake up our understanding of[Read More…]
Hubble Catches Possible ‘shadow Play’ of the Disk Around a Black Hole
Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- Some of the most stunning views of our sky occur at sunset, when sunlight pierces the clouds, creating a mixture of bright and dark rays formed by the clouds’ shadows and the beams of light scattered by the atmosphere. Astronomers studying nearby galaxy IC 5063 are tantalized by[Read More…]
Solar Orbiter Launch Takes Solar Science to New Heights
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA to study the Sun, launched at 11:03 p.m. EST Sunday on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. At 12:24 a.m. Monday, mission[Read More…]
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Has Been Assembled for the First Time
By Thaddeus CesariNASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Goddard Space Science Center-(ENEWSPF)-Reaching a major milestone, engineers have successfully connected the two halves of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the first time at Northrop Grumman’s facilities in Redondo Beach, California. Once it reaches space, NASA’s most powerful and complex space telescope will explore the cosmos[Read More…]
