A new X-ray space telescope is broadening our understanding of the universe with just three dozen pixels — really putting smartphones with as many as 12 million to 48 million pixels to shame! The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA spacecraft known as the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM; pronounced “crism”) launched in […]
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that early universe galaxies must have grown up way faster than expected. Plus, the same team also found that, 10 billion years ago, the cosmos wasn’t quite as disordered and chaotic as previously believed. The international team, led by researchers from Durham University in the U.K., […]
Scientists posit that some dead stars made from the densest material in the known universe, so-called “neutron stars,” could act as traps for dark matter particles that smash together at high speeds and annihilate one another. In turn, the crew says, the annihilation process likely heats the dead stars from the inside out. In general, […]
The current “standard model” of the cosmos, its history, and its evolution is called the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) model — but the supremacy of this model, in which lambda represents the cosmological constant and dark energy, may now be under serious threat. In short, that is because new observations of the cosmos have suggested […]
Editor’s note: This story is available as a result of a content partnership between WFTV and the Orlando Business Journal. A Georgia developer has unveiled plans to build 314 apartments on a property near Universal Orlando’s Epic Universe. ▶ WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS The master plan request was filed March 25 with the city […]
Though it’s still seven years from reaching Jupiter, the JUICE mission is proceeding apace — and a recent test-run simulated the mission’s spacecraft flying by the Jovian icy moon, Callisto. Having blasted off from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana a year ago, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, known as JUICE for short, is still in […]
It has been over two decades since the discovery of dark energy. Scientists have therefore had more than 20 years to decode the secrets of this invisible substance that appears to be pulling the universe apart. Yet, they still know close to nothing about it. Dark energy, in fact, may not even be a substance. […]
It’s still blowing our minds that we are four years out from the p*ndemic! Ayman Haykal / Getty Images/iStockphoto Because “pandemic nostalgia” is super in right now, let’s take a look at all of the forgotten trends of the time… 1.Making dalgona coffee: Reda&co / REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images 2.People doing the “Pillow […]
Mar. 27—MORGANTOWN — On May 7, 2021, the Columbia natural gas pipeline was temporarily shut down by a ransomware attack. That attack, and the ever-present vulnerability of our computer systems was on the minds of a group of panelists Wednesday during the seventh annual Focus Forward symposium, organized by the West Virginia Public Education Collaborative […]
The Euclid “dark universe” probe’s ailing vision has been restored after an experimental deicing campaign successfully evaporated ice from the telescope’s mirrors, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Tuesday (March 26). Ice layers as wide as a single DNA strand had collected on Euclid‘s mirrors, causing a small but progressive decrease in the amount […]
Space fans around the globe are invited to join co-hosts Padi Boyd and Jacob Pinter for the latest episode of NASA’s official “Curious Universe” podcast as they discuss humankind’s connection to our neighborhood class G star. This first installment of the online show’s seventh season is titled “The Sun, Our Star” and is part of […]
Just like drivers scrape ice from car windshields during the winter, scientists with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid observatory are trying to “de-ice” the telescope — from a million miles away. Ice layers, about as wide as a single DNA strand, have accumulated on Euclid’s mirrors. Although small, the ice appears to have caused […]