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A Mesmerizing Model of Monster Black Holes
2 min read A Mesmerizing Model of Monster Black Holes Just about every galaxy the size of our Milky Way (or bigger) has a supermassive black hole at its center. These objects are ginormous – hundreds...
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Milky Way’s Central Black Hole Woke Up 200 Years Ago, NASA’s IXPE Finds
Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, is far less luminous than other black holes at the centers of galaxies we can observe, which means our galaxy’s...
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Why NASA’s Roman Mission Will Study Milky Way’s Flickering Lights
A simulated image of Roman’s observations toward the center of our galaxy, spanning only less than 1 percent of the total area of Roman’s galactic bulge time-domain survey. The simulated stars were...
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NASA Telescope Data Becomes Music You Can Play
4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) For millennia, musicians have looked to the heavens for inspiration. Now a new collaboration is enabling actual data from...
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NASA’s Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way
4 Min Read NASA’s Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way Sagittarius C (NIRCam) Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe (University of Virginia). The latest image from NASA’s James Webb...
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Seeing Sagittarius C in a New Light
The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s reveals a portion of the Milky Way’s dense core in a new light. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the...
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NASA Telescopes Find New Clues About Mysterious Deep Space Signals
6 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) In an ejection that would have caused its rotation to slow, a magnetar is depicted losing material into space in this...
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NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Far Side
The plane of our Milky Way galaxy, as seen by ESA’s Gaia space mission. It contains more than a billion stars, along with darker, dusty regions Gaia couldn’t see through. With its greater sensitivity...
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