Category Space and Ufo

The Perseids are the most famous and one of the most active meteor showers of the year. (Image credit: Tito Garcia/500px via Getty Images) The annual Perseid meteor event is one of the most famous and frequently observed meteor showers…

These two images of the Pillars of Creation, a star-forming region 6,500 light-years from Earth, were taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (left) and the James Webb Space Telescope (right). (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Hubble Heritage Project (STScI,…

This composite image from NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes shows the open clusters NGC 460 and NGC 456 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, and K. Lindberg (Johns Hopkins University); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/The Catholic…

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will shine in our solar system for the rest of the year before disappearing forever. (Image credit: ESA/Las Cumbres Observatory) The astronomical community is excited by the recent discovery of an “interstellar object,” which is only the…

A family portrait of galaxies from the CRISTAL survey. Red indicates cool gas from ALMA [CII]. Blue and green represent starlight from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes (Image credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) / HST / JWST / R. Herrera-Camus)…

Three images from Parker Solar Probe’s groundbreaking corona survey illustrate the formation of coronal mass ejections (yellow) — giant balls of plasma ejected by the sun into the solar system. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Lab) NASA has released…

Mars’ tilt is currently comparable to Earth’s. However, millions of years ago, its axis shifted significantly, possibly causing a catastrophic water leak. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) A new study suggests that dramatic changes in the tilt of Mars’s spin axis over…

Astronomers identified the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS on July 1. This is one of the first images of the object. (Image credit: ATLAS/University of Hawaii/NASA) Our solar system has an unexpected visitor that is currently moving towards us at high speed,…

An artist’s impression of our Milky Way. (Image credit: ESO Calçada) Astronomers have reported new evidence that our planet and the Milky Way galaxy are located inside a vast void that is distorting our observations of space. A bold proposal…

The “cosmic owl” as captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Each “eye” represents an active galactic nucleus, and the “beak” is where stars are being born. (Image courtesy of Lee et al.) Who is it? Simply the “Cosmic Owl,”…

A false-color photograph of the Moon, compiled from 15 images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft during its flyby on December 8, 1992. But what color is moonlight really? (Image credit: NASA/JPL) Blue moons, blood moons, and honey moons have all…