Image Approximately 1375 lightyears away, the Horsehead Nebula is the closest giant star-forming region to Earth. Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Earlier this month, the European Space Agency (ESA) shared the first five images from its Euclid space telescope, currently located 1.5 million km from…

Since its founding in 1963, UCF has had close ties to the space industry. In the early 1990s, UCF professors would go to Kennedy Space Center to teach graduate programs to NASA employees. When NASA’s budgets were cut, UCF proposed to NASA to research nondestructive testing methods so the agency wouldn’t have to destroy rocket…

Canada is announcing new “astronaut assignments” today (Nov. 22), and you can watch the event live. The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will host a livestream at 9:30 a.m. EST (1430 GMT) on its YouTube channel and on Facebook, agency officials posted on X (formerly Twitter). The event will be at CSA headquarters near Montreal, Quebec.…

Astrophysicists working with the JWST have found a surprising amount of metal in a galaxy only 350 million years after the Big Bang. How does that fit in with our understanding of the Universe? The origin of the Universe’s first metals is a foundational question in astrophysics. Shortly after the Big Bang, the Universe was…

(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Tue 21 November 2023 19:00, UK Pink Floyd stands as one of the most influential bands in music history. Across their extensive and illustrious career, the group transitioned from the raw psychedelia of their initial era, led by Syd Barrett, to a deep dive into musical and studio experimentation. As…

WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (Reuters) – Since becoming operational last year, the James Webb Space Telescope has made groundbreaking observations involving some of the universe’s earliest galaxies. One might call them galactic infants. But Webb has obtained even better data on galaxies a bit further along in development. Astronomers call these the galactic “teenagers.” And, as…

Bethany Theiling is a planetary research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Name: Bethany TheilingFormal Job Classification: Planetary research scientistOrganization: Planetary Environment Laboratory, Science Directorate (Code 699) What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? How do you help support Goddard’s mission? I am…

The ISS is too large to entirely burn up in the atmosphere. Image credit: NASA. NASA is developing a plan to deorbit the International Space Station (ISS) at the end of its lifetime, currently scheduled for 2030. Since the 356-foot-wide laboratory is too big to completely vaporize if left to naturally burn in Earth’s atmosphere,…