The James Webb Space Telescope allows astronomers to see huge numbers of galaxies in deep space, and they’re finding some peculiar things. Notably, scientists recently trained the Webb telescope – the most powerful observatory in space – on as many as 100,000 relatively young galaxies and observed some unique cosmic phenomena in a galaxy dubbed … Read more
An international research team studied the scorching exoplanet WASP-76 b using the MAROON-X instrument on the Gemini-North Telescope. The team successfully identified 11 chemical elements in the planet’s atmosphere, providing crucial information on the formation and composition of giant planets. The planet, which is 12 times closer to its star than Mercury is to the … Read more
When you turn on a lamp to light up a room, you’re experiencing light energy transmitted as photons, which are small, discrete quantum packets of energy. These photons have to obey the sometimes strange laws of quantum mechanics, which, for example, dictate that photons are indivisible, but at the same time allow a photon to … Read more
