2024

SPACE

What is going on out there?

Nassim Haramein

Pictures of the Universe


September 24, 2024

Webb Peers into the
Extreme Outer Galaxy

Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than 58,000 light-years away from the Galactic Center. (For comparison, Earth is approximately 26,000 light-years from the center.) ... by NASA

September 24, 2024

Space Telescope Will
Illuminate Cosmic Dawn

Shortly after its birth, the cosmos was a blistering sea of particles and radiation. As the universe expanded and cooled, positively charged protons were able to capture negatively charged electrons to form neutral atoms (mostly hydrogen, plus some helium). That was great news for the stars and galaxies the atoms would ultimately become, but bad news for light! ... - by NASA

June 2024

Pillars of Creation
in New Visualization


Made famous in 1995 by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the Pillars of Creation in the heart of the Eagle Nebula have captured imaginations worldwide with their arresting, ethereal beauty. Now, the agency has released a new 3D visualization of these towering celestial structures using data from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. This is the most comprehensive and detailed multiwavelength movie of these star-birthing clouds. - by NASA

June 2024

Fire-Breathing
Lakes

New findings from the Juno probe provide a fuller picture of how widespread the lava lakes are on Jupiter’s moon Io are and include first-time insights into the volcanic processes at work there. These results come courtesy of Juno’s Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper instrument, contributed by the Italian Space Agency, which “sees” in infrared light. - by NASA.

January 2024

Horsehead
Nebula


Euclid shows us a spectacularly panoramic and detailed view of the Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33 and part of the constellation Orion video by ESA