On Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, a pulse of intense radiation swept through the solar system so exceptional that astronomers quickly dubbed it the BOAT – the brightest of all time.
The source was a gamma-ray burst (GRB), the most powerful class of explosions in the universe. Article by NASA
The Hubble Space Telescope was almost a failure. Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman, a former NASA astronaut who served on the first mission to fix Hubble in 1993, recounts the incredible journey of repairing the iconic space telescope - by Museum of Science.
One of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s science goals is to understand how galaxies in the early universe formed and evolved into much larger galaxies like our own Milky Way. This goal requires that we identify samples of galaxies at different moments in the universe’s history to explore how their properties evolve with time - by NASA.
