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The CHIME telescopes in British Columbia detected the unusual fast radio burst, dubbed FRB 20240209A, in February 2024.
News. News. Entertainment. Lighter Side. Politics. Science & Tech. Sports. Weather 'Lazy astronomy': Viewing the Planet Parade. January 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM. A planetary alignment, one of the ...
The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power of the Colorado River. Close to the moon's south pole are two canyons ...
It remains a week-long astronomy festival, with hundreds of attendees yearly from around the world. [7] Byrd has won numerous awards from the broadcasting and science communities, including having an asteroid named 3505 Byrd in her honor. [8] Byrd was an early winner of the Klumpke-Roberts Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. [9]
Amber Nicole Straughn (born c. 1979) is an American astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center where she serves as the deputy project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, responsible for science communications. [1] Her research focuses on interacting and star-forming galaxies in the context of galaxy assembly. She is also the ...
The superbubble Henize 70, also known as N70 or DEM301, in the Large Magellanic Cloud [1]. In astronomy a superbubble or supershell is a cavity which is hundreds of light years across and is populated with hot (10 6 K) gas atoms, less dense than the surrounding interstellar medium, blown against that medium and carved out by multiple supernovae and stellar winds.
The U.S. space agency's robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2020 collected the samples from the near-Earth asteroid, a rocky remnant of a larger celestial body that had formed near the dawn of the ...
This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu, was taken on December 2, 2018 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles. Organic samples returned from Bennu contain the building blocks of life on ...