The ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope, shown here under construction in Chile, sports Jupiter and Mars rising in the pre-dawn skies, along with nearby Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (Comet A3) rising on the morning of September 28, 2024. The comet is continuing to...
This Hubble image of massive galaxy cluster MACS J1206 shows the arcing and smeared-out features caused by the gravitational light-bending of the foreground galaxy cluster. Small-scale concentrations of dark matter, represented in blue, have been reconstructed based on the lensing...
This illustration shows the Parker Solar Probe approaching perihelion: its closest approach to the Sun. It will achieve its closest approach ever on December 24, 2024, coming within just 4.43 solar diameters of the Sun’s photosphere. (Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space...
A region of space devoid of matter in our galaxy reveals the Universe beyond, where every point visible here is a distant galaxy. The cluster/void structure can be seen very clearly, demonstrating that our Universe is not of exactly uniform...
Both space and time coordinates are needed to describe an object in our Universe. Your location in this Universe isn’t just described by spatial coordinates (where), but also by a time coordinate (when). It is impossible to move from one...
This image of deep space was acquired with JWST’s NIRCam instrument by the CEERS collaboration. Representing just ~2% of their entire field-of-coverage, nearby, intermediate, and distant galaxies all appear together, with just a total of 1 hour of exposure time....
This view of the inside of the ATLAS detector, taken when it was not operational, showcases the largest, most massive particle collider detector ever built. The ATLAS collaboration, later confirmed by CMS, was the first to measure entanglement between top-antitop...
This side-by-side view shows the extended emission regions around the protostar L1527, one of the closest and youngest protostellar systems known, as imaged both by JWST’s NIRCam (left) and MIRI (right) instruments. Located only 460 light-years away in the Taurus...
While we conventionally think of quantum physics as bringing an inherent uncertainty and “quantum-ness” to the particles that exist in our Universe, these effects necessarily extend beyond the particles themselves to include the fields that permeate all of space, even...
The idea that two quanta could be instantaneously entangled with one another, even across large distances, is often talked about as the spookiest part of quantum physics. If reality were fundamentally deterministic and were governed by hidden variables, this spookiness...
