According to astronomers, roughly 60 percent of all galaxies in the universe are spiral, reports the news website CNN. For example, even our Milky Way galaxy is a spiral galaxy – and our Solar System is located in only one of its arms. Galaxies are gravitationally bound groups of stars, interstellar matter, cosmic dust and … Read more
On the planet WASP-107b there are clouds of sand and even sand-rain, according to a new study in the journal Nature. The planet is unlike anything in our solar system. The gas planet is as massive as Neptune, but as big as Jupiter. This means that it has a low density. The fluffy planet is … Read more
The team found that there are surprisingly many very young stars in IRS13. “It seems that the IRS13 star cluster is the key to revealing the origin of the nuclear star cluster, i.e. the densest grouping of stars in our Galaxy,” Zajaček told Právu. The star cluster is located in the immediate vicinity of the … Read more
Each image as explained by NASA in its websiteis the result of a combination of X-rays from orbiting Chandra and infrared spectrum data previously provided by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which has been observing the universe from 1.5 million kilometers from Earth since last January. Astronomers also used data from the Hubble Space … Read more