Posts by Universal-Sci
A bright foreground star can’t outshine the grandeur of galaxy UGC 3855.
Young blue stars are scattered along its spiral arms, contrasted and complemented by dark dust lanes tracing the galaxy’s structure.
(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Walsh)
Europeans Live Longer Than Americans Regardless of Wealth
Here's Why: www.universal-sci.com/article/euro...
Fascinating: JWST reveals four spiralling shells of dust around Apep, a rare pair of Wolf-Rayet stars.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Science: Yinuo Han (Caltech), Ryan White (Macquarie University); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
Breathtaking, VISTA's look at the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), a planetary nebula located 700 light-years away
(Credit: ESO/VISTA/J. Emerson. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit)
Fascinating!
The Surprising Way a Hawk Used Traffic Lights to Improve Its Hunting Success: www.universal-sci.com/article/how-...
Spectacular: Webb reveals Westerlund 2 as a brilliant stellar nursery, where thousands of young stars blaze through glowing clouds of gas and dust 20,000 light years from Earth.
(Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, V. Almendros-Abad, M. Guarcello, K. Monsch, and the EWOCS team)
Neuroscientists identify a surprising low-tech fix to the problem of sleep-deprived teens: www.universal-sci.com/headlines/20...
Breathtaking: spiral galaxy NGC 4535, located about 50 million light-years away
This galaxy has been nicknamed the ‘Lost Galaxy’ because it’s extremely faint when viewed through a small telescope.
(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Belfiore, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team)
This remarkable image offers a close-up view of the grand spiral galaxy NGC 4603, which sits over 100 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Centaurus.
(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Maund)
Magnificent: Barnard 175, a reflection nebula perched on a dark Bok globule. A Herbig-Haro object, a jet from a forming star, is embedded in its upper right.
Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)
Behind Saturn
An illusion of perspective, Saturn’s moon Tethys seems to hang above the planet’s north pole in this view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)
Harmful Snoring Impacts One in Five People
Yet Most Are Unaware of Their Condition: www.universal-sci.com/article/undi...
Megatsunami on Mars caused by an asteroid similar to the one that killed the dinosaurs on Earth: www.universal-sci.com/article/mega...
A spectacular view of DEM L249, the leftover shell of a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way roughly 160,000 light-years away.
(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Y. Chu)
A breathtaking view of Messier 83, the barred spiral galaxy also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, one of the largest and nearest barred spirals to Earth.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) - Acknowledgement: William Blair (Johns Hopkins University)
A spectacular view of the Flame Nebula, perfectly named for its fiery, flame-like appearance.
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech et. al.)
What your father did before you were born could influence your future: www.universal-sci.com/headlines/20...
A spectacular view of GN 04.32.8, a blue reflection nebula in the Taurus Molecular Cloud, where starlight illuminates drifting dust and a newborn protostar hides inside an edge-on disc...
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Duchêne, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble)
A stunning view of the Himalayas from the International Space Station.
NASA shows the world Earth’s beauty from a perspective like no other!
(Credit: NASA Earth Observatory)
Why are insects drawn to artificial light at night?
We may finally know: www.universal-sci.com/article/why-...
Stunning: Telescope support towers under the Milky Way
(Credit: ESO-P. Horálek)
Exercising during the afternoon has extra benefits
Here's why: www.universal-sci.com/article/exer...
A stunning view of N159
Within these dense clouds, newborn stars are beginning to glow.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Indebetouw, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble)