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James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Dry Ice in Butterfly Nebula
Mar 15, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Infrared spectroscopy has opened a new window into the chemical structure of evolved stellar systems. Recent observations with the James Webb Space Telescope have now…
ESA’s AllSky Cameras Photograph a Fireball over Western Europe
Mar 15, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Shortly before 19:00 Central European Time on March 8, 2026, a bright atmospheric entry event occurred over Western Europe. The object appeared as an intense…
Counting Craters: Mars Express Reveals Mars’s Ancient Landscape
Mar 13, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Mars offers a particularly valuable record of impact history. Large areas of the planet still preserve ancient terrain formed during the earliest stages of Solar…
NASA’s Chandra Maps 3,300 X-ray Sources at Milky Way’s Core
Mar 13, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
High-energy astrophysics relies on long observational records and carefully calibrated datasets. Over the past two decades, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has built one of the…
NASA’s IXPE Photographs Black Hole Jets in Perseus Cluster
Mar 12, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Relativistic jets from supermassive black holes rank among the most energetic phenomena in the universe. These narrow streams of plasma emerge from the vicinity of…
MOTHRA Telescope Array Unveiled: The 1,140-Lens Observatory
Mar 12, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers describe the universe as a large-scale network of matter shaped by gravity and cosmic expansion. Cosmological simulations show that galaxies assemble along elongated filaments…
Cosmic Steering Wheel: DECam Reveals the Structure of NGC 1269
Mar 11, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers classify galaxies by their shapes, internal structures, and stellar distributions. These properties reveal how galaxies formed and evolved over cosmic time. Spiral galaxies, for…
VLT Identifies a New Gas Cloud Orbiting the Centre of the Milky Way
Mar 11, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The central region of the Milky Way provides one of the most valuable laboratories for studying the physics of supermassive black holes. At a distance…
NASA’s Chandra Reveals a Hidden Neutron Star Merger
Mar 10, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Short gamma-ray bursts represent some of the most energetic transient events in the universe. Astronomers generally associate them with the merger of two neutron stars…
Listen to Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus: NASA’s Chandra Turns X-ray Data into Sound
Mar 4, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
High-energy astrophysics relies on measurements of radiation that the human eye cannot detect. X-ray photons, produced in extreme environments, carry information about temperature, magnetic fields,…