Vera Rubin Observatory captures distant galaxies (Image: X/@VRubinObs) After over 20 years in the making, the Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile released its first images on Monday, revealing stunning views of the universe and highlighting its powerful abilities.The observatory is located on Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes. It works in clear, dark skies…
Image of ultra diffuse galaxy “NGC 1052 – DF2”, taken by the ACS/WFC instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. (Picture credit: DST) A distant galaxy once thought to lack a key ingredient in galaxy formation may now be better understood, thanks to new research from Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA). Their recent study, published…
This is an AI-generated image, used for representational purposes only. PARIS: Dark energy makes up roughly 70 per cent of the universe, yet we know nothing about it.Around 25 per cent of the universe is the equally mysterious dark matter, leaving just five per cent for everything that we can see and touch, matter made…
Black holes have always been the cosmos’ biggest mystery—gigantic cosmic vacuum cleaners that gobble up everything, including light itself. But what exactly lies in wait inside such mind-bending voids? Scientists with state-of-the-art quantum computing might just have figured it out, and the results are nothing short of mind-blowing. Ditch science fiction speculations of wormholes and…
This is an AI-generated image, used for representational purposes only. Scientists in Spain may have taken a giant leap in safeguarding Earth from potential asteroid collisions. A study published in the ‘Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society’ highlights a new formula that uses the gravitational bending of light to pinpoint the precise locations of…