How to Name Asteroids and the Criteria for Naming Asteroids

How to Name Asteroids and the Criteria for Naming Asteroids

Jakarta – Recently two scientists from Natural History Museum England was given an unusual honour. How could they not, both of them ‘earned’ an asteroid with their respective names. Quoted from the official website, these two scientists are Dr. Helena Bates with the asteroid 28994 Helenabates and Dr. Ashley King with the asteroid 31551 Ashleyking. … Read more

James Webb Telescope Celebrates First Anniversary with Closest Star-Forming Area Image

James Webb Telescope Celebrates First Anniversary with Closest Star-Forming Area Image

CNN Indonesia Friday, 14 Jul 2023 12:18 WIB The James Webb Telescope celebrates its first anniversary by exhibiting ‘a star is born’. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan and Alyssa Pagan) Jakarta, CNNIndonesia — The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) celebrated its first birthday on Tuesday (12/7) by showing off a photo capture region which … Read more

Exploring Bosscha Observatory: A Unique Educational Experience in Bandung

Exploring Bosscha Observatory: A Unique Educational Experience in Bandung

BandungBergerak.id – Still in the atmosphere of the long semester break for school children, some of the around 50 visitors took turns entering the iconic dome of the Zeiss double refractor telescope at the Koepel Building, Bosscha Observatory complex, Lembang, West Bandung Regency, Saturday (8/7/2023). The legacy of tea master Karel Albert Rudolf Bosscha is … Read more

James Webb Telescope: Discoveries and Images of Distant Galaxies

James Webb Telescope: Discoveries and Images of Distant Galaxies

The world’s most advanced telescope, the James Webb Telescope, continues to explore the universe. In the first half of this year, he focused on distant galaxies that reveal how the first stars were formed. Thanks to his sharp images, he helped scientists with several discoveries. Photos are continuously published by the American space agency NASA. … Read more

Euclid Mission: Exploring the Mysteries of the Dark Universe

Euclid Mission: Exploring the Mysteries of the Dark Universe

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA—A mission to unravel the mysteries of the dark universe was launched on Saturday (1/7/2023) UK time. The two-tonne telescope, named after the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid, began a million-mile journey as it lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The research rocket will head to an area in space known as the second … Read more

Exploring the Mysteries of the Universe: Euclid Space Telescope and Dark Matter

Exploring the Mysteries of the Universe: Euclid Space Telescope and Dark Matter

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope will be launched using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Saturday 1 July 2023. Photo/ESA/Live Science PARIS – Telescope Euclid’s outer space European Space Agency (ESA) will be launched using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Saturday 1 July 2023. This … Read more

JADES Program and James Webb Space Telescope Unveil Secrets of Galaxy Formation in Early Universe

JADES Program and James Webb Space Telescope Unveil Secrets of Galaxy Formation in Early Universe

Jakarta – Have you seen the photo above? Well, that’s how it feels to see more than 45,000 galaxies. This photo was captured by the Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) program by the James Webb Space Telescope. JADES was a major science program that changed knowledge about galaxies in the early universe. As a result, … Read more

James Webb Space Telescope discovers ancient, almost invisible galaxy JD1

James Webb Space Telescope discovers ancient, almost invisible galaxy JD1

Jakarta – The faintest galaxy has been identified by the James Webb Space Telescope. This dim light is apparently influenced by its great distance from Earth, about 13.3 billion light years. These ancient, barely visible star clusters were born about a few million years after the Big Bang. At that time, the universe (cosmos) was … Read more

Astronomers Discover Quasi-Moon Orbiting Earth: All You Need to Know About 2023 FW13

Astronomers Discover Quasi-Moon Orbiting Earth: All You Need to Know About 2023 FW13

Tuesday, 6 June 2023 – 13:06 WIB LIVE Techno – A group of astronomers discovered a ‘quasi-moon’ or false moon – an asteroid that orbits Earth but is actually gravitationally bound by the Sun. This thing is called 2023 FW13 and was spotted recently, causing quite a stir among space enthusiasts. Experts used the Pan-STARRS … Read more

Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Discovered in Nearest Star Cluster Messier 4

Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Discovered in Nearest Star Cluster Messier 4

Jakarta – Not long ago, astronauts managed to find a mysterious black hole through the Hubble Space Telescope. This mysterious black hole was discovered hidden behind the cosmic Earth. Launching from the page Live Sciencethis black hole is located approximately 6,000 light years away at the core of the nearest star cluster Messier 4. To … Read more