Celestial

By ESA/Hubble May 14, 2023The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the densely packed globular cluster NGC 6325, aiding astronomers in studying star formation. Researchers are investigating the possibility of a hidden intermediate-mass black hole at its center, which could be influencing the motion of surrounding stars. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Noyola, R. CohenThe <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Hubble Space…

Against all odds, it appears that Intel is still on course with its next-gen graphics cards, and its plans reach far into the future. A new report tells us that Intel may have ordered a large number of GPU chips from TSMC. While Intel Arc struggles to compete against the best graphics cards, this is still great news for the GPU market as a whole — here’s why. Compared to AMD and Nvidia, Intel is still very new to the discrete GPU market, and it only has a limited number of cards up for grabs. The range is…

In a rare planetary alignment, five planets (Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars) have lined up near the moon. The rare occurrence is visible in tonight's sky. The five planets under the moon are visible from around the world.  The five-planet spread can be seen from anywhere on Earth, as long as you have clear skies and a view of the west. “That's the beauty of these planetary alignments. It doesn't take much,” NASA astronaut Bill Cooke said. As per the NASA astronomer, Jupiter, Venus and…

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the Butterfly Nebula which shows layers of gas being ejected from a star that has exhausted its nuclear fuel. According to a tweet by Hubble, eventually this nebula will fade and leave behind a stellar corpse known as a white dwarf. "This structure may look like a cosmic butterfly unfurling its celestial wings, but there's nothing gentle or delicate about this massive blowout. In Caldwell 69, also cataloged as NGC 6302 and commonly known as the Butterfly or Bug Nebula,…

Fans of Apex Legends are counting down to the start of the Celestial Sunrise event. The Apex Legends Celestial Sunrise Collection event has a January 24 release date and a 6pm GMT UK launch time. Celebrating the Chinese New Year, the Celestial Sunrise event Running until February 7, the event introduces the new LTM Hardcore Royale mode, alongside new skins, items and other cosmetics.Apex developer Respawn explains more: "Celebrate the dawn of a new year as EA and Respawn today revealed the brand new Apex Legends Celestial…

Throwback When Beyonce Posed Almost N*de For Her Album (Pic Credit: Instagram) Pop singer Beyonce enjoys a massive fanbase. She is loved and adored by many all across the globe. She is undeniably one of the greatest musicians of the current era with several hits in her kitty. Beyonce’s songs preach girl power and that’s one of the major reasons that she also enjoys a strong female fanbase and she never shies away from making bold choices. Pop singer Beyonce grabbed a lot of headlines when she dropped her seventh solo…

If you check in regularly to ScienceAlert, you'll be familiar with quite a few stunning space images, but a newly published picture has to be one of the best yet: 2 years in the making, 10 terabytes worth of data, 21,400 individual exposures combined, and a final image showing a huge 3.32 billion celestial objects.We have the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) to thank for this beautiful shot of space, part of the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), some 2,200 meters (7,218…

A new survey of the Milky Way has been released containing more than 3 billion objects, making it one of the largest astronomical catalogs ever produced. The second data release of the Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey, or DECaPS2, focuses on the galactic plane, which is the view looking across the disk of the galaxy in which most of the stars are located and covers 6.5% of the night sky. The dataset is available to astronomers to use in their research, but it’s also available for the public to view online in a web…

Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects — arguably the largest such catalog so far. Credit: DECaPS2/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, Image processing: M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)NSF’s NOIRLab releases colossal astronomical data tapestry displaying the majesty of our Milky Way in unprecedented detail.Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the <span…

A new survey of the Milky Way has unveiled billions of celestial objects in our galaxy’s plane. The survey was taken using the Dark Energy Camera, which the US Department of Energy built, and it contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects within it. Researchers say that it is arguably the largest catalog of its type ever made. We already knew that the Milky Way contained hundreds of billions of stars but seeing the sheer amount of celestial objects that our galaxy has to hold in an image is…