Outer Space News

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Provides a New Catalog of the Highest-Energy Blasts

For a decade, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope from NASA has skimmed the sky for GRBs (gamma-ray bursts)—the most luminous explosions in the universe.

Newly Found Dwarf Starburst Galaxy Could Offer Intriguing Hints at How Galaxies Form and Evolve

ESO 495-21, a tiny galaxy with a big heart, lies embedded within the field of bright foreground stars.

Study Finds Ripples in Milky Way’s Outer Disk were Caused by Collision with Antlia 2

A study led by Sukanya Chakrabarti, Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, has found that the collision of Antlia 2—a newly discovered dark dwarf galaxy—with the Milky Way could be the reason for the characteristic ripples in the outer disk of Milky Way.

LIGO and Virgo Detect Neutron Star Smash-ups

On April 25, 2019, the National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the European-based Virgo detector registered gravitational waves from what appears likely to be a crash between two neutron stars—the dense remnants of massive stars that previously exploded.

Solar Atmospheres of California Receives Nadcap 24 Month Merit Status for Heat Treating

Nadcap recognizes Solar Atmospheres of California for its superior performance and commitment to continual improvement in aerospace quality

Big Bang Could be a 3D ‘Mirage’ of a Collapsing Star

The big bang poses a big question: if it was indeed the cataclysm that blasted our universe into existence 13.7 billion years ago, what sparked it?

Hubble Enables Most Precise Mass Map of Distant Galaxy Cluster

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the mass within a galaxy cluster more precisely than ever before. Created using observations from Hubble's Frontier Fields observing programme, the map shows the amount and distribution of mass within MCS J0416.1–2403, a massive galaxy cluster found to be 160 trillion times the mass of the Sun.

Roguish Runaway Stars Shock the Galaxy and Create Arcs

Roguish runaway stars can have a big impact on their surroundings as they plunge through the Milky Way galaxy. Their high-speed encounters shock the galaxy, creating arcs, as seen in this newly released image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.