Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN  —  A panorama of colliding galaxy clusters glimmers in a new image, captured by the combined forces of the two most powerful space observatories ever created. The cosmic phenomenon, called MACS0416, is 4.3 billion light-years…

The Milky Way can’t hold onto all of its stars. Some of them get ejected into intergalactic space and spend their lives on an uncertain journey. A team of astronomers took a closer look at the most massive of these runaway stars to see what they could find out how they get ejected. When astronomers…

Today, our sister planet Venus resembles an environment as close to hell as one can imagine. Surface temperatures on the amber world soar to 450 degrees Celsius (842 degrees Fahrenheit), while about 96% of the planet’s crushing atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide. Once upon a time, however, Venus may have resembled something much…

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team, including astronomer Alexander de la Vega of the University of California, Riverside, has discovered the most distant barred spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way that has been observed to date. Until now it was believed that barred spiral galaxies like the Milky Way could not…

Panchromatic view of MACS0416, a galaxy cluster about 4.3 billion light-years from Earth. The image was created by combining infrared observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope with visible-light data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The resulting prismatic panorama of blues and reds give clues to the distances of the galaxies. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI,…

Purdue University Northwest student Deonte Mackie was awarded the prestigious TEAM-UP Together Scholarship for the 2023-2024 academic year. Mackie was the first PNW student and one of only 62 undergraduate students nationwide to receive the scholarship. “I was surprised when I found out I had received the scholarship,” said Mackie, a third-year Physics major in the College of…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that nearly all of the universe’s earliest galaxies were filled with dazzling gas clouds that blazed brighter than the emerging stars within them — and it could help solve a mystery that threatens to break cosmology. Forming as early as 500 million years after the Big Bang,…

ASU researchers contribute to studies examining the infrared light from the images November 9, 2023 Webb and Hubble have joined forces to study the galaxy cluster MACS0416, located about 4.3 billion light-years from Earth. Their combined data yields a colorful panorama of blues and reds — colors that give clues to the distances of the…

Ireland is all set to see its first-ever satellite reach orbit. The Educational Irish Research Satellite 1, or EIRSAT-1, was built by University College Dublin students as part of the European Space Agency (ESA) Academy’s Fly Your Satellite! (FYS) program. The gamma-ray astronomy cubesat project began in 2017 and is now due to fly on…