When NU.nl writes about discoveries in space, you often read how many light-years away something is happening or is located. Readers on NUjij asked how those distances are calculated. That is complicated matter, but we will give you a small introduction. Speed of light There is nothing in the universe that travels faster than light. … Read more
Lunar lander Odysseus has sent its first images of the moon, reports the American company Intuitive Machines. Odysseus landed on the moon on Friday, but fell on its side. Still, we managed to send photos to Earth. Odysseus survived the landing on Friday in one piece, but ended up in a crater. This caused the … Read more
Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have come across a ‘pearl necklace’ of stars. The stars are connected by ‘strings’ of gas. The whole stretches over thousands of light years, reports space agency NASA. It concerns twelve different galaxies that are connected by their tails. These tails are formed because the galaxies pull on … Read more
Jan 27, 2024 at 12:16 am Astronomers have discovered a new type of star at the center of the Milky Way. It is a variant of a red giant that spews clouds of gas. Researchers discovered the star species in a study of the starry sky published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. … Read more
Jan 13, 2024 at 3:59 PM Update: 2 hours ago The formation of stars has not changed in the past ten billion years, astronomers note with surprise. According to them, it comes down to one thing: hot gas can or cannot cool down quickly. That is evident from it largest research to star formation someday. … Read more
Nov 10, 2023 at 11:01 am Astronaut Frank Borman died on Tuesday at the age of 95. The American led the first flight to the moon in 1968. Borman was commander of the Apollo 8 mission. The spacecraft flew around the moon several times. The mission was an important starting point for the moon landing … Read more
Nov 3, 2023 at 10:25 PM Update: 8 hours ago The small asteroid that was examined by NASA last week appears to have its own ‘mini moon’. Spacecraft Lucy took photos of the discovery on Wednesday. The asteroid, named Dinkinesh, is barely 790 meters wide. The NASA vehicle passed a major asteroid belt in which … Read more
Oct 7, 2023 at 6:25 PM Update: 8 hours ago The smallest planet in our solar system, Mercury, continues to shrink. Heat from the planet’s core disappears through new cracks in the surface, new research shows. The results of the new research were published in the scientific journal earlier this month Nature Geoscience. It was … Read more
Oct 7, 2023 at 6:25 PM Update: 7 hours ago The smallest planet in our solar system, Mercury, continues to shrink. Heat from the planet’s core disappears through new cracks in the surface, new research shows. The results of the new research were published in the scientific journal earlier this month Nature Geoscience. It was … Read more
Researchers are excited about a discovery on the moon Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. The James Webb telescope found carbon there, an important condition for life, writes the European Space Agency ESA. The James Webb Telescope found the carbon dioxide in a specific region on the icy moon’s icy surface. That CO2 comes from the … Read more