With the imminent launch of the James Webb Space Telescope next year, many scientists are asking what is next? Today’s bite, which focuses on a recent workshop on global coordination: future space-based Ultraviolet-Optical-Infrared Telescopes, hopefully represents the first steps towards the next big space telescope.
In today’s guest post, Ziad Sakr discusses the role of ultrafaint galaxies in cosmic reionization.
Failed supernovae result in massive stars disappearing into the night sky without a trace. Although many stars may meet this fat, we’re just beginning to look for them!
Although this planet is far from habitable, scientists have confirmed the presence of water vapor in the atmosphere of the WASP-12 system. What does this infer about its planetary atmosphere? Is this in agreement with other studies? The story is not as black and white as we might have thought.
Astronomers have long wished to probe the number of galaxies containing bar structures to ever increasing redshifts. This paper discusses the first results from the Galaxy Zoo Hubble classifications of galaxies out to redshifts of z = 1, in order to study how the fraction of galaxies containing a bar has changed over a cosmic time that has previously not been explored.
For the first time, diffuse X-ray emission from young stars is identified in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), using data from Chandra.