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Fossil remains of the black hole-eating frenzy of the past have been found deep within one of the largest galaxy clusters in our sky. Astronomers also saw physics-defying plasma shockwaves, and loops of radio energy within the same galaxy cluster. Key points: Astronomers have discovered a trio of rare objects in a distant galaxy cluster known as Abell 3266 One of the mysterious objects is a shockwave relic dubbed the “wrong way”. The objects were discovered using radio telescopes in Western Australia and New South Wales The cluster – Abell 3266 – is located 800 million light-years away and spans the sky 300 million light-years in the southern constellation Reticulum. An international team of astronomers, led by Christopher Riseley of the University of Bologna in Italy, studied the cluster in detail using the powerful Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder radio telescope in outback Western Australia, and the smaller Australia Telescope Compact Array in Narr...

A powerful new telescope helps scientists monitor collisions of neutron stars or dead suns. While NASA’s James Webb telescope is busy exploring space and sending amazing photos of galaxies back to Earth, one revolutionary telescope scans the sky for colliding dead suns and helps scientists better understand physics. The new telescope, called the Gravitational Wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO), is located on the volcanic island of La Palma in Spain. According to Interesting Engineering, the new Gravity Wave Optical Transient Observer consists of two jet-black batteries of eight cylindrical telescopes bolted together. To cover different parts of the sky, the GOTO instrument rapidly rotates and rotates vertically and horizontally to capture the collision of the dead sun, known as a neutron star. How Do Scientists Study Dead Star Collisions Using GOTO? Astronomers in 2017, by sheer luck, observed the collision of two neutron stars. After that, British scientists built the Grav...

When it comes to searching for asteroids, we have a blind spot. It may seem counterintuitive, but the asteroid’s most important discoveries are now being made at dusk, when astronomers can see up close to the horizon – and close to the sun – for what little is known. asteroids orbiting within the orbits of Earth, Venus and even Mercury. In perspective published in Science today, asteroid hunter Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution of Science highlights the new “twilight telescope” surveys and the riches they are beginning to discover. It includes the first asteroid with an interior orbit to Venus and the one with the shortest known orbital period around the sun, both of which have been unearthed in the past two years. It also includes “city killers”, asteroids large enough that if they hit Earth the damage will be severe. “We’re doing a full survey looking for anything moving around the orbit of Venus, which is somewhere w...

Neutron star collisions are an opportunity to see what’s inside these incredible objects Astronomers have for the first time been able to detect collisions with dead suns known as neutron stars, thanks to a powerful new telescope. Neutron star collisions are key to our understanding of the Universe. They are thought to have created the heavy metals that formed the stars and planets like us billions of years ago. The light from the collision was only visible for a few nights so telescopes had to race to find it. Astronomers observed one of these collisions in 2017, but most found it by luck. The British Gravity Wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO), located above the clouds on the Spanish volcanic island of La Palma will now systematically hunt them down. “When the really good detection comes along, everything has to be done to the max,” Prof Danny Steeghs, from the University of Warwick, told me in La Palma. “Speed ​​is of the essence. We are looking for somethi...

The Southern Hemisphere’s first deep-sky telescope is poised to shed new light in some of the darkest parts of the universe, as it begins its survey of western New South Wales. Developed by Macquarie University, the Hunter Telescope has been unveiled at the Siding Spring Observatory, nestled among the mountains of the Warrumbungle Range near Coonabarabran. Project team member Sarah Caddy says the Huntsman design allows for highly specialized research into the formation and evolution of galaxies. “When we look for very dim objects, objects with low surface brightness, we want to collect as much light as possible,” he said. Built almost entirely from ready-to-use technology, the Hunter’s “eyes” are Canon’s 10 telephoto lenses. ( ABC Western Plains: Nic Healey ) “With traditional mirror-based telescopes, they can scatter light into parts of the field of view that we don’t want … that makes it very difficult to find very dim thin...

James Webb telescope illustration. (photo: NASA) It James Webb telescope has succeeded in photographing celestial bodies spectacularly which until now has not been known in detail. However, the $10 billion space satellite isn’t launched just to bring you new wallpapers out of the world. In addition to space research, James Webb will have important missions: study the solar system, and it’s already started. True, the solar system still has many unknowns. Even recently POT decided to direct James Webb viewers to a not-so-close neighbor, Jupiter . Through publications on its official website, and in googleArts&Culture, They show the images they obtained of the gas giant and other impressive space images. Photo of Jupiter made by the James Webb Telescope. (photo: NASA) If James Webb could take impressive pictures from billions of light years away, just imagine what it could do in the solar system. Although the mission focused on space exploration for the first fe...

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have collaborated on the production of a new telescope that will explore space for optical clues about violent cosmic events that create ripples, or waves, in the fabric of space itself. Observatories are currently only able to measure the effects of waves as they pass through our local swath of space-time, which makes it difficult to trace the origin of the source. The new telescope, named the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO), will fill this gap by searching for optical signals in the electromagnetic spectrum that might indicate the source of the wave. A new telescope, consisting of two identical arrays on opposite sides of the planet, one at La Palma in the Canary Islands and the other in Australia, has been produced to track the source of gravitational waves for the first time. The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO), a collaborative project led by the University of Warwick and with major contributions ...

If you are already following astronomy community on Twitter or maybe, Captain America himself You may have come across the story about the latest discovery of the James Webb Space Telescope: “The oldest galaxy we have ever seen.” This is exactly as promised from the James Webb Space Telescope. Just a week ago, the collective jaws of the world hit the floor when First amazing picture revealed . Now, the telescope started off right myriad science programs but researchers already have access to much of the data collected during the commissioning phase of JWST and released earlier to researchers around the world. That’s how we ended up discovering the “oldest galaxy” so quickly. Scientists examine specific data sets to search for distant galaxies and find a candidate they have dubbed the GL-z13, a callback to the current confirmed record holder, the GNz11. There’s still a lot of work to be done to make sure the GL-z13 is actually the new reco...

Just a week after its first images were shown to the world, the James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered a galaxy that existed 13.5 billion years ago, a scientist analyzing the data said Wednesday. Known as GLASS-z13, this galaxy dates back to 300 million years after the Big Bang, about 100 million years earlier than anything previously identified, Rohan Naidu of the Harvard Center for Astrophysics told AFP. “We are potentially seeing the light of the most distant star that anyone has ever seen,” he said. The further away the object is from us, the longer it will take for its light to reach us, and so gazing back into the distant universe is looking into the deep past. JWST has the potential to break records, discovering galaxies that existed when the universe was only 300 million years old! Light from GLASS-z13 took 13.4 billion years to reach us, but the distance between us is now 33 billion light years due to the expansion of the universe! pic.twitter.com/5AcOBwHuO...

Yes, tiny rock particles hit the Webb telescope. No, the mission almost failed. You may have read misleading headlines emphasizing that the James Webb Space Telescope – the most powerful observatory ever built – has suffered permanent damage. That’s a bit of a cherry on a new 55-page report that describes the instrument’s excellent scientific performance over the past six months, as engineers prepare and test unprecedented cosmic observation capabilities. The Webb telescope, overall, is in excellent condition. Here’s what you should know about observatory conditions that will revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos. SEE ALSO: The first stunning cosmic image from the James Webb telescope is here What do scientists conclude about the state of the Webb telescope? NASA and its collaborative partners, the Canadian Space Agency and the European Space Agency, concluded that Webb – even after micrometeroids (small rock particles often the size of dus...

WASHINGTON — NASA has selected SpaceX to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope with Falcon Heavy, but at a much higher price than the agency’s previous contract. NASA announced July 19 that it awarded SpaceX a contract to launch Roman on the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket in October 2026 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The contract is worth $255 million for launch and other mission-related costs. Roman is the next major astrophysics mission after the James Webb Space Telescope. The spacecraft has a 2.4-meter main mirror, donated to NASA a decade ago by the National Reconnaissance Office, with wide-field instruments and a coronagraph to conduct research in cosmology, exoplanets, and general astrophysics. The spacecraft with a mass of about 4,200 kilograms will operate from the Earth-sun Lagrange L-2 point, a space region about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth in the direction away from the sun. It is the same location that JWST and several other astrophysi...

NASA has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket to launch its next major space telescope, a wide-field observatory that directly complements the new James Webb Space Telescope. Originally known as the Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST), NASA recently renamed the mission in honor of Nancy Grace Roman, the basic force behind the Hubble Space Telescope. Fittingly, the basic design of the Roman Space Telescope is reminiscent of Hubble in many ways, due to the fact that the mission existed solely because the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) chose to donate an unused billion-dollar spy satellite – a satellite which is effectively a secret version of Hubble facing Earth. However, thanks to decades of improvements in electronics, electromechanics, and the instrumentation side of spacecraft and space telescopes, the RST will be dramatically more capable than any similar Hubble telescope. And now, after years of battling for survival, the Roman Space Telesco...