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Satellite Events for Tonight

Hubble Survey Sets Up Roman’s Future Look Near Milky Way’s Center

Reported by NASA

The Milky Way’s galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, planets, and other free-floating objects. This region has been studied for decades with numerous ground-based and space-based tel...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Mon, 11 May 2026 14:00 +0000

NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir

Reported by NASA

NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir sits for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Sept. 23, 2025. This photo was chosen as one of the 2025 NASA Photographer of the Year finalists. Meir launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the Int...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Mon, 11 May 2026 13:58 +0000

New Model Finds the Lower Size Limit for Habitable Exoplanets

Reported by Universe Today

The search for Earth 2.0 has begun in earnest. But there’s a huge variety of exoplanets out there, so narrowing down the search to focus valuable telescope time on only the best candidates is critical. One variable of a planet that will have a huge impac...
  • By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
  • On: Mon, 11 May 2026 11:53 +0000

Astronomers Find an X-Ray Key to the Red Dot Mystery

Reported by Universe Today

Ever since JWST first began peering out at the early Universe a few years ago, astronomers have been spotting strange "little red dots" (LRDs) in its infrared images. There are hundreds of these compact blobs at very high redshifts at distances of about 12...
  • By: Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/cc-petersen)
  • On: Sun, 10 May 2026 20:04 +0000

Hubble Capture a Starry Spiral Cosmic Neighbor

Reported by Universe Today

A spiral galaxy seen close up and tilted at an angle, so that its disc fills the view from corner to corner. Its disc is yellow near to the centre and pale blue farther out, showing cooler and hotter stars, respectively. Thin brown clouds of dust, glowing ...
  • By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
  • On: Sun, 10 May 2026 17:41 +0000

"Hypergravity" Rewires Biology Over the Long Haul

Reported by Universe Today

There’s a specific sequence in the anime Dragonball Z that for some reason has stuck in my head for over two decades. Goku, the main character of the show, travels to King Kai’s planet and can barely stand up when he arrives because the planet’s grav...
  • By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
  • On: Sun, 10 May 2026 12:51 +0000