Tag: Solar System

  • Stars are looking at a black hole

    Stars are looking at a black hole

    Astronomers have detected a radio signal from a black hole known as Sagittarius A* for the first time. The signal was found in images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of Centauri, a cluster of 10 million stars around 18,000 light-years from Solar System. The black hole could be at least 8,200 times as big…

  • A European space probe looks at the Jupiter System

    A European space probe looks at the Jupiter System

    The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Juno mission will be sending a probe to orbit Jupiter’s moons Europa and Ganymede in an attempt to find the moon, the largest in the entire solar system. The Juno mission will circle back and pass close to the Earth and the Moon in a year, which will help to…

  • Diamonds shine in the new telescope image.

    Diamonds shine in the new telescope image.

    Researchers have shared the first images of’Pillars of Creation’, a star-forming region in our Solar System. The image was taken using NASA’s James Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope’s PEARLS, a near-infrared camera, at a high redshift. “When knots with sufficient mass form…they begin to collapse under their own gravity, slowly heat up, and eventually…