For the first time, scientists have captured the clearest and most detailed image of the cosmic microwave background ...
Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have detected a new ultra-faint ...
That first light is the cosmic microwave background (CMB). As you can imagine, some 13.4 billion or so years later, the CMB is very, very faint and low in energy, so it takes a lot of observation ...
The ghostly ring Kýklos (from the Greek κύκλος, circle or ring) and the object WR16 both show the environment of rare and ...
But the Webb telescope, which views faint infrared light (detected as heat), revealed these deep space objects. Three of the low mass objects in the Flame Nebula revealed by the James Webb Space ...
While some flares are faint flickers, lasting mere seconds ... Traveling at velocities near the speed of light, these particles emit bright bursts of radiation. “A magnetic reconnection event ...