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Bookmark or Share- NASA Reveals Webb Telescope’s First Images of Unseen UniverseJuly 12, 2022. One of the first images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, this landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby young star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI Full Image Details.
- NASA Gets Unusually Close Glimpse of Black Hole Snacking on StarLocated about 250 million light-years from Earth in the center of another galaxy, it was the fifth-closest example of a black hole destroying a star ever observed. Once the star had been thoroughly ruptured by the black hole’s gravity, astronomers saw a dramatic rise in high-energy X-ray light around the black hole.
- Stars and Galaxies | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)Galaxies that merge into giant swirls. Enormous stars that eventually explode and become supernovas. Neutron stars — objects so dense, one tablespoon of their material would weigh about 1 billion tons on Earth. Through its research and missions, JPL has captured data and stunning images of many of these odd objects in space.
- NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per HourMost familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space.
- 360-Degree View of the Milky Way - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)In Spitzer's mosaic, light from stars throughout the galaxy -- which stretches 100,000 light-years across -- shines through. This picture covers only about three percent of the sky, but includes more than half of the galaxy's stars and the majority of its star formation activity. The red color shows dusty areas of star formation.
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