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NASA Study Helps Explain Limit-Breaking Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Sources

These objects are more than 100 times brighter than they should be. Observations by the agency’s NuSTAR X-ray telescope support a possible solution to this puzzle. Exotic cosmic objects known as ultra-luminous X-ray sources produce about 10 million times more energy than the Sun. They’re so radiant...

New Interactive Mosaic Uses NASA Imagery to Show Mars in Vivid Detail

Both scientists and the public can navigate a new global image of the Red Planet that was made at Caltech using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Cliffsides, impact craters, and dust devil tracks are captured in mesmerizing detail in a new mosaic of the Red Planet composed of 110,000...

Nasa astronaut Christina Koch to be first woman to go to Moon

By India Today Science Desk: Astronaut Christina Hammock Koch will become the first woman to go around the Moon ever since humanity began exploring the lunar world. US space agency Nasa announced that Koch will be the mission specialist when four humans board the Orion spacecraft for a trip around...

NASA names woman, Black astronauts to Artemis II crew in lunar first

April 3 (Reuters) – NASA on Monday named the first woman and the first African American ever assigned as astronauts to a lunar mission, introducing them as part of the four-member team chosen to fly on what would be the first crewed voyage around the moon in more than 50 years. Christina Koch...

Spectacular Hubble Image Captures Aftermath of Catastrophic Supernova Explosion

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the aftermath of a Type II supernova explosion in the spiral galaxy UGC 2890, which is located 30 million light-years away in the Camelopardalis constellation. While the supernova occurred in 2009, Hubble recently took a break from its regular...

Webb Detects Extremely Small Main Belt Asteroid

NASA’s newest astrophysics observatory wasn’t designed to look for small objects in our solar system, but scientists using its Mid-Infrared Instrument may have done just that. An asteroid roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum – between 300 to 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) in length – has been detected...

Teen makes history as youngest African American pilot in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KOAT) – A teenager from New Mexico has become the state’s youngest pilot and the youngest African American in the state to earn his wings. Gabriel Carothers, 17, is no stranger to flying high as aviation sparked his interest early in life. “My father had a family friend who had an...

Jessica Watkins, the first Black woman on the space station crew, describes historic journey

  Jessica Watkins is a self-described “rock nerd” with a doctorate in geology. So when she boarded her first mission to space as a member of NASA’s astronaut corps, she brought along photos of family and friends — and some rocks. “Of course, I had to,” Watkins, 34...

Scientists find a common thread linking subatomic color glass condensate and massive black holes

Physicists have discovered a remarkable correspondence between dense states of gluons — the gluelike carriers of the strong nuclear force within atomic nuclei — and enormous black holes in the cosmos. The dense walls of gluons, known as a color glass condensate (CGC), are generated in...