Little Red Dots Could Be Ancient Globular Clusters, Each Dominated by a Super-Massive Star
Reported by Universe Today
Little Red Dots are one of the mysteries uncovered by the JWST. Astronomers have been trying to figure out what they are, and have come up with multiple possibilities. New research says they could be ancient Globular Clusters with supermassive stars in the...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:07 +0000
NASA Astronaut Chris Williams to Discuss Space Station Mission
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NASA astronaut Chris Williams will recap his recent eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station during a news conference at 2:45 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 4, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA will stream this event live ...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:49 +0000
NASA Science Soars During August Total Solar Eclipse
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Each time the Moon covers the Sun during a total solar eclipse — darkening daytime skies and briefly revealing the Sun’s ethereal outer atmosphere, the corona — it presents new opportunities to better understand our star and its influence on Earth. O...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:01 +0000
NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Returns to Earth
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NASA astronaut Chris Williams is all smiles in this July 26, 2026, photo taken shortly after he landed with Expedition 74 Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and Sergei Mikaev in Kazakhstan. This was Williams’ first mission. Williams spent eig...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:48 +0000
How NASA Plans to Build the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Reported by Universe Today
We’ve been covering the journey of the Habitable Worlds Observatory for some time now. Over the past few years, it's gone from a proposal to a relatively fleshed-out plan for how and what the next Great Observatory should do—in this case, look at and c...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:22 +0000
NASA’s Swift Sees ‘Wandering’ Mega Black Hole Shredding Star
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NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured an “orphan” black hole lighting up as it devoured a star on the outskirts of a faraway galaxy. These phenomena are rare to begin with, and none had ever before been seen so far outside of a galaxy’s co...
- By: NASA
- On: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:06 +0000