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Visitors inside the Off-World section of the exhibition, while a swarm of bioluminescent creatures emerge above their heads

Voyage to the Edge of Imagination review: A compelling new sci-fi show

9 November 2022

A new exhibition at the Science Museum isn't so much about science fiction, as it is about involving you in a journey through the cosmos
Caroline Herschel's pioneering astronomy is brought into the spotlight

Caroline Herschel's pioneering astronomy is brought into the spotlight

9 November 2022

Herschel's discovery in the 18th century of 560 missing stars is the focus of new audio-visual work from photographic artist Lynda Laird
Front view of the IceCube Lab at twilight, with a starry sky showing a glimpse of the Milky Way overhead and sunlight lingering on the horizon.

Neutrinos have been spotted coming from a strange, shrouded galaxy

3 November 2022

Cosmic neutrinos are tough to track – it has only been done once before – but researchers from the IceCube observatory in Antarctica have tracked 79 of them back to their home galaxy
A fracture in the Cerberus Fossae system on Marsers, indicating their relative youth. https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Search?SearchText=mars+AND+cerberus&result_type=images

Quakes on Mars reveal there may be magma beneath the surface

27 October 2022

The Red Planet may be more geologically active than we thought – seismic data hints there is magma underground
Fully deployed Webb telescope. Artist concept. The James Webb Space Telescope.

The extraordinary JWST is named for James Webb, whose legacy I deplore

26 October 2022

James Webb's legacy was to stand for a status quo where queer Black people like me could never have a home in the NASA community. Naming the incredible new telescope after him has come to represent the contradictions of my job, says Chanda Prescod-Weinsten
The giant El Gordo galaxy cluster

JWST spots smallest galaxy outside our local universe

21 October 2022

The James Webb Space Telescope has glimpsed the smallest galaxy outside our local universe – and it is a thousand times less massive than the Milky Way
Fleet of satellites in orbit above Earth

Space adverts are now economically viable but potentially dangerous

6 October 2022

Falling launch costs for satellites mean space advertising may now make commercial sense, according to a feasibility study, but the idea remains controversial
An infrared image of Io taken by the Juno spacecraft in 2017

Lava erupting on Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io is over 1000°C

6 October 2022

Astronomers used radio telescopes to estimate the temperature of molten rock on Io, the most volcanically active world in the solar system
By combining data from NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA?s Hubble Space Telescope, researchers were able to trace light that was emitted by the large white elliptical galaxy at left through the spiral galaxy at right and identify the effects of interstellar dust in the spiral galaxy. This image of galaxy pair VV 191 includes near-infrared light from Webb, and ultraviolet and visible light from Hubble. Webb?s near-infrared data also show us the galaxy?s longer, extremely dusty spiral arms in far more detail, giving them an appearance of overlapping with the central bulge of the bright white elliptical galaxy on the left. Although the two foreground galaxies are relatively close astronomically speaking, they are not actively interacting. Don?t overlook the background scenery! Like many Webb images, this image of VV 191 shows many galaxies that lie great distances away. For example, two patchy spirals to the upper left of the elliptical galaxy have similar apparent sizes, but show up in very different colors. One is likely very dusty and the other very far away, but researchers need to obtain data known as spectra to determine which is which.

JWST and Hubble teamed up to take a stunning image of two galaxies

5 October 2022

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope observe the universe in different wavelengths, and combining their data has given astronomers a detailed look at the interstellar dust in a pair of galaxies
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Watch out for three meteor showers set to occur in October

5 October 2022

A triptych of meteor showers will pepper the sky this month: the Draconids, the Orionids and the Taurids. Here is how and when to spot them, writes Abigail Beall