Astronomy and Space Science

A detailed map of dust in Milky Way

Astronomy's dirty window to space: A detailed map of dust in the Milky Way

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it appears? Or does the star merely look reddish, since its light has had to travel through a cloud of cosmic dust to reach our telescope?

EurekAlert! · 2d

Astronomy’s dirty window to space

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA’s Gaia mission,

Science Daily · 10h

Detailed map of dust in the Milky Way

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results from the LAMOST spectral survey,

Gizmodo · 1d

Astronomers Just Created the Most Detailed 3D Map of Cosmic Dust Yet

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the stuff at scale.

earth · 17h

Cosmic map reveals that the Milky Way's dust has very unusual properties

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove of information.

The New York Times2d

Space and Astronomy

By Alex Travelli An issue with a ground system that supports the Falcon 9 rocket led to a postponement of at least one day of the latest rotation of space station crews. By Kenneth Chang The ...

Newspoint on MSN4h

Know 10 exciting career options in Space Technology and Astronomy

If you want to make a career in Space Technology and Astronomy. So read about 10 such exciting options by studying which you ...

Science Daily1d

Small, faint and 'unexpected in a lot of different ways': Astronomers make galactic discovery

The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...

Eberly College of Science1d

The story behind the cosmic image on a new US stamp

Over 50,000 submissions are made for images on U.S. stamps every year, and out of those, about 40 are turned into real stamps ...

Space.com3d

Watch SpaceX, NASA launch SPHEREx and PUNCH science probes tonight after multiple delays (video)

The agency had planned to launch both missions at the same time on Saturday (March 8) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, but ...

Wall Street Journal2d

There’s a Blood Moon Rising. How to Watch the Total Lunar Eclipse.

For the first time since 2022, skywatchers across North and South America will have a chance to glimpse the moon turn a rusty red during a total lunar eclipse, in a phenomenon nicknamed the ...

ZME Science on MSN10d

The First Water Formed Just 200 Million Years After the Big Bang From Exploding Stars

“Before the first stars exploded, there was no water in the Universe because there was no oxygen,” said Daniel Whalen, a ...

Korea.net3d

Space telescope jointly made with US launched into space

Spherex, an infrared space telescope jointly developed by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute and NASA of the U.S ...

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