ESA’s Euclid Lifts off on Quest to Unravel the Mystery of Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Following launch and separation from the rocket, ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, confirmed acquisition of signal from Euclid via the New Norcia ground station in Australia at 17:57 CEST. “The successful launch of Euclid marks the beginning of a new scientific endeavour to help us answer one of the most compelling […]
Webb Captures Rarely Seen Prelude to A Supernova
The rare sight of a Wolf-Rayet star — among the most luminous, most massive, and most briefly-detectable stars known — was one of the first observations made by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (Webb). Webb shows the star WR 124 in unprecedented detail with its powerful infrared instruments. The star is 15 000 light-years […]
Video of Galaxy Pair VV 191 (Webb and Hubble Composite Image)
Combining the data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, researchers were able to trace light that was emitted by the large white elliptical galaxy at left through the spiral galaxy at right and identify the effects of interstellar dust in the spiral galaxy. This image of galaxy pair […]