Lockheed Martin’s Starlab is one of several currently proposed private space stations. The company hopes to have it built by 2027. Credit: Nanoracks The era of the International Space Station (ISS) is coming to a close. In the near future, NASA plans to bring down the station in a controlled deorbit. The end of the…

Cook Government welcomes return of Astrofest nation’s largest astronomy festival More than 5,000-star gazers are expected to attend the event at Curtin Stadium Free festival offers attendees hands-on learning experiences throughout the night Star gazers and astronomy enthusiasts are over the moon with the return to Perth next weekend of the biggest astronomy festival in…

Astrofest, Australia’s largest free Space and Astronomy festival, will celebrate its 15th anniversary in 2024, marking a significant milestone. On Saturday, 9th November, space enthusiasts, families and curious minds are invited to join the festivities for an extraordinary experience at this iconic event at Curtin Stadium, Curtin University. Visitors can look forward to gazing through…

While peering into the early universe with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers keep finding monster black holes that seem to be growing too big, too fast for cosmological models to explain. Now, new observations of an exceptionally ravenous, rule-breaking object could help reveal why. Using JWST to get a closer look at ancient…

Astronomers have spotted thousands of young stars huddled around the center of an ancient galaxy, all of which formed nearly simultaneously 4 million years ago. This observation marks the first time such synchronized star formation has been spotted in an old galaxy, and challenges the idea that star formation declines as galaxies age. The newfound…

How do stars form and evolve inside globular clusters? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of researchers conducted a groundbreaking examination of star populations that reside within globular clusters, which consists of a densely packed group of stars pulled together by gravity, with…

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega has found a surprising lack of planets, as evidenced by the disk and surrounding halo being filled with a snow of tiny particles. In the 1997 movie “Contact,” Jodie Foster’s character Ellie Arroway…

<!– Back –> 05 Nov, 2024 Joy Pillai The Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302) emerged from a dying star once about five times the Sun’s mass. December 2023 Webb’s NIRCam captured Cassiopeia A, a famous supernova remnant. A remarkable view of the Crab Nebula reveals intricate web-like patterns within this supernova remnant. Hubble captured NGC 604,…

What can microgravity teach us about stem cell growth? This is what a recent study published in NPJ Microgravity hopes to address as a pair of researchers from the Mayo Clinic investigated past research regarding the growth properties of stem cells, specifically regeneration, differentiation, and cell proliferation in microgravity and whether the stem cells can…

Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about books that have gone on to find new life as movies, television shows, theatrical productions, video games and more. This week’s challenge is focused on fiction and nonfiction works about space exploration that were adapted into popular films. Just tap or click your answers…