Photo credit: Yuexiang Liu / Institute of High Energy PhysicsDeep beneath the granite hills of Guangdong, China, a big experiment has just started. The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory, or JUNO, began taking data on August 26, 2025 after more than 10 years of planning and construction. JUNO is 700 meters underground to protect against cosmic … Read more
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope gives us a stunning new view of one of astronomy’s most famous patches of darkness that we call the sky. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field showed nearly 10,000 galaxies in one frame and has been the gold standard for understanding the distant past of the universe. Now, Webb has turned … Read more
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has trained its sights on NGC 6072, a planetary nebula in the constellation Scorpius, and the results are a star’s last breath. These near- and mid-infrared images show a multi-lobed cloud of gas and dust that hint at the complex processes of a star’s demise. NGC 6072, about 3,000 light-years … Read more