by sagesgroup | Nov 22, 2023 | Astronomy, homepage, hp-latest, JWST, Science, space, Space Science
— NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Samuel Crowe (UVA) The heart of the Milky Way revealed some of its secrets to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) — and new images could help reveal more about the origin story of the universe. Just 300 light years from the supermassive...by sagesgroup | Nov 17, 2023 | homepage, hp-latest, Science, space, Space Science
Someday in the future, the first astronauts to explore the north and south poles of Mars may trek across the dusty ice by the eerie green light of oxygen atoms high in the Martian atmosphere. The European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter recently spotted the...by sagesgroup | Nov 16, 2023 | homepage, hp-latest, Science, space, Space Science
— NASA The universe is full of stupendously huge explosions. Gamma ray bursts in distant galaxies are literally an everyday sight, and supernovae are even more common as astronomers observe hundreds every year. But one type of cosmic cataclysm is the rarest and most...by sagesgroup | Oct 23, 2023 | Astronomy, homepage, hp-latest, NASA, Science, Space Science, Syndicated, The Conversation
— Marc Ward/Stocktrek Images/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images In 2020, Oxford-based philosopher Toby Ord published a book called The Precipice about the risk of human extinction. He put the chances of “existential catastrophe” for our species during the next century at...by sagesgroup | Oct 20, 2023 | homepage, hp-latest, Science, space, Space Science
By now, you’ve probably seen a lot of great photos of last weekend’s annular solar eclipse (and if you’re like us, you can never see too many). But this one, from a satellite hovering between Earth and the Sun, will show the eclipse as you probably haven’t seen it –...by sagesgroup | Oct 18, 2023 | homepage, hp-latest, Science, space, Space Science
— QAI Publishing/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Gas giants like Jupiter may be more common than we thought, at least in some parts of the galaxy. For a long time, we assumed that our Solar System was the very model of what a star system should look like: a few...