On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its history. The Hubble survey, assembled from over 1,000 orbits and ...
Supersonic winds on this exoplanet, designated WASP-127b, travel at a mind-bending 5.5 miles per second (9 kilometers per second). The speed of sound on Earth is roughly 0.21 miles per second (0. ...
And according to Daniel Weisz, associate professor of astronomy at the University of California: “Andromeda’s a train wreck. It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it ...
Despite the tight security measures at India’s busiest airport, the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in Delhi, shocking incidents such as theft and smuggling occasionally come to light. In a ...
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — For the first time, astronomers have taken a direct look at an exoplanet’s insides. An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new ...
The giant exoplanet - 11% bigger than Jupiter - has winds that reach up to 5,400 mph, around seven times the speed of sound, and has temperatures ranging from 919 to 1,220C. What’s more ...
But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way—the magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31). It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear ...
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WASP-132 is a unique multi-planet system in that both an inner rocky planet and the newly-discovered outer giant planet are in a system with a hot-Jupiter planet. This suggests the hot Jupiter ...
In 2021, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) spotted the super-Earth, a fascinating development that suggested WASP-132 is a remarkable planetary system. Scientists now know the ...