JWST"s Newfound Galaxies Are the Oldest Ever Seen
We now know that the first galaxies in our universe formed shockingly fast, thanks to the latest results from the James Webb Space Telescope.....»»
Max confirms 2024 password crackdown, explores adding transactional ads
WBD looking for ways to grow newfound streaming business profitability. Enlarge / Max viewers will soon need their own account to watch Ellie in The Last of Us (credit: Liane Hentscher/HBO) Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).....»»
This rare 11th-century Islamic astrolabe is one of the oldest yet discovered
"A powerful record of scientific exchange between Arabs, Jews, & Christians over 100s of years." Enlarge / Close-up of the 11th-century Verona astrolabe showing Hebrew (top left) and Arabic inscriptions. (credit: Federica Gigante.....»»
Daily Telescope: A new Webb image reveals a cosmos full of galaxies
See a galaxy as it was just 430 million years after the Big Bang. Enlarge / This image from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument shows a portion of the GOODS-North field of galaxies. (credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI,.....»»
What makes black holes grow and new stars form? Machine learning helps solve the mystery
When they are active, supermassive black holes play a crucial role in the way galaxies evolve. Until now, growth was thought to be triggered by the violent collision of two galaxies followed by their merger; however, new research led by the Universit.....»»
Astronomers discover new Saturn-sized exoplanet
An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-1135 b is young, hot and comparable in size to Saturn. The discovery was detailed in a paper published.....»»
This rare 11th century Islamic astrolabe is one of the oldest yet discovered
"A powerful record of scientific exchange between Arabs, Jews, & Christians over 100s of years." Enlarge / Close up of the 11th century Verona astrolabe showing Hebrew (top left) and Arabic inscriptions. (credit: Federica Gigante.....»»
James Webb Space Telescope captures the end of planet formation
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is helping scientists uncover how planets form by advancing understanding of their birthplaces and the circumstellar disks surrounding young stars......»»
Jaw-dropping Webb photo reveals how the universe turned its lights on
Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to view some of the earliest galaxies in the universe, revealing how these objects may have cleared cosmic gas and ended the Dark Ages. The universe was once stuck in the Dark Ages.It was time when.....»»
Targeting seed microbes to improve seed resilience
Fonio (Digitaria exilis), a type of millet, is the oldest indigenous crop in West Africa and one of the fastest-maturing cereals. Despite its low yield, the combination of quick maturation and drought tolerance and its ability to thrive in poor soils.....»»
A black hole discovery could force us to rethink how galaxies came to be
Peering deep into the infancy of the universe, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) recently confirmed the discovery of the brightest and fastest growing quasar. Quasars are luminous objects in the night sky powered by gas f.....»»
Webb finds dwarf galaxies reionized the universe
Using the unprecedented capabilities of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists has obtained the first spectroscopic observations of the faintest galaxies during the first billion years of the universe. These.....»»
Astronomers detect an extremely red supermassive black hole in the early universe growing in the shadows
Analyzing images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a group of astronomers led by Dr. Lukas Furtak and Prof. Adi Zitrin from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has detected an extremely red, gravitationally lensed supermassive black hole in.....»»
Astronomers detect a new short-period brown dwarf
While analyzing the data from the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new brown dwarf. The newfound object, designated NGTS-28Ab, orbits its host star in just about 30 hours. The finding was re.....»»
Astronomers observe the effect of dark matter on the evolution of the galaxies
Dark matter comprises around 85% of all the matter in the universe. Although ordinary matter absorbs, reflects and emits light, dark matter cannot be seen directly, which makes its detection difficult. Its existence is inferred from its gravitational.....»»
Racing Driver Arrested as Police Target Thailand’s Largest & Oldest Torrent Site
On Monday, anti-piracy coalition ACE announced the shutdown of SiamBit, an 18-year-old torrent site said to have as many as 100,000 paying members, mostly from Thailand. While those details are unusual, the bigger picture is quite extraordinary. Four.....»»
JWST sees a Milky Way-like galaxy coming together in the early universe
The gigantic galaxies we see in the universe today, including our own Milky Way galaxy, started out far smaller. Mergers throughout the universe's 13.7 billion years gradually assembled today's massive galaxies. But they may have begun as mere star c.....»»
Black hole fashions stellar beads on a string
Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded. This mega-explosion billions of years ago may help explain the formation of a striking pattern of star clusters around two massive galaxies, resembling be.....»»
Stone Age "megastructure" under Baltic Sea sheds light on strategy used by Paleolithic hunters over 10,000 years ago
Archaeologists have identified what may be Europe's oldest human-made megastructure, submerged 21 meters below the Baltic Sea in the Bay of Mecklenburg, Germany. This structure—which has been named the Blinkerwall—is a continuous low wall made fr.....»»
Even if we can"t see the first stars, we could detect their impact on the first galaxies
For a long time, our understanding of the universe's first galaxies leaned heavily on theory. The light from that age only reached us after traveling for billions of years, and on the way, it was obscured and stretched into the infrared. Clues about.....»»
Cave art in Patagonia found to be oldest pigment-based cave art in South America
An international team of scientists reports that cave art at a site in Patagonia is the oldest of its type ever found in South America. In their study, published in the journal Science Advances, the group conducted radiocarbon dating of the material.....»»