The James Webb Space Telescope captured an image of the dense center of the Milky Way, a chaotic region of space, NASA said on Monday.  The image features Sagittarius C, a star-forming region about 300 light years from the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A. Some 500,000 stars are visible in the image,…

The Geminids, considered one of the best and most reliable meteor showers of the year, is underway.  Activity began on Sunday, but the cosmic show will continue until Dec. 24, with a peak on Dec. 14. Here’s what you should know about the Geminids meteor shower, including what causes it: When and where can you…

On Friday, Columbia Astronomy Public Outreach hosted a public lecture led by PhD candidate Jennifer Mead to share how astronomers unearth the secrets of dead stars, and how new stars emerge from their ashes. Enjoy a little astronomy trivia game at the end our article! On Friday, November 17, PhD candidate Jennifer Mead gave a…

It is with great pride that we announce that Pierrot Lamontagne, iREx member and Master’s student in astrophysics at Université de Montréal, has been selected as the winner of the Hubert Reeves Grant. The scholarship, named in honour of the famous scientist and science popularizer, rewards outstanding motivation by a Master’s student at the Université…

Artist concept of the Milky Way. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Astrophysicists say they have found an answer to why spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way are largely missing from a part of our local universe called the Supergalactic Plane. The Supergalactic Plane is an enormous, flattened structure extending nearly a billion light years across in which…

Astronomers were surprised to see evidence of notoriously hard-to-detect elements like oxygen and nickel using observations of adolescent galaxies from the James Webb Telescope. (CN) — Why do different galaxies look so different? Why do they have different temperatures and different shapes? What happens to them along the way to make them like that? And,…

image:  Light from 23 distant galaxies, identified with red rectangles in the Hubble Space Telescope image at the top, were combined to capture incredibly faint emission from eight different elements, which are labelled in the JWST spectrum at the bottom.Although scientists regularly find these elements on Earth, astronomers rarely, if ever, observe many of them in…

Light from 23 distant galaxies, identified with red rectangles in the Hubble Space Telescope image at the top, were combined to capture incredibly faint emission from eight different elements, which are labeled in the JWST spectrum at the bottom.Although scientists regularly find these elements on Earth, astronomers rarely, if ever, observe many of them in…