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…

Over 100 astronomers from leading U.S. universities have signed an open letter calling for an assessment of potential impacts of satellite megaconstellations on Earth’s environment. The researchers urge the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which approves satellite deployments in the U.S., to halt megaconstellation launches and conduct a thorough assessment of their possible environmental impacts…

Credit: NASA The next president of the United States could be the first in that office to accept a phone call from the Moon and hear a woman’s voice on the line. To do so, they’ll first need to make a series of strategic space policy decisions. They’ll also need a little luck. Enormous government…