Telescope

Habitable worlds may be far more common than thought, Israeli study says

Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always show the same face to their star.

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Life beyond Earth may exist in far stranger places than scientists once thought, a new study suggests. January, 22.
The orbit of 2025 QV5 around the Sun brings it close to Earth and Venus. For most of the next century, the asteroid will pass closer to Venus more often

No danger, says NASA: Airplane-sized asteroid buzzed Earth at 28,000 mph

2025 QD8, measuring 17-38 meters in diameter, passed within 218,000 kilometers of Earth at 57% of the Moon's distance with no collision threat, streamed live by Virtual Telescope Project.

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This image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera, July 21, 2025.

A new guest in the cosmic neighborhood: The possible extraterrestrial origins of 3I/ATLAS

Is 3I/ATLAS an alien space probe? An irregular comet? Debate rages around status of 3rd interstellar object ever spotted. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb discusses implications with ‘Magazine.'

|ByAARON REICH
NASA finds new tiny moon around Uranus, raising total to 29.

NASA finds new tiny moon around Uranus, raising total to 29

The 10-kilometer-wide body orbits 56,000 kilometers from uranus's center between ophelia and bianca and awaits an IAU-approved name.

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NASA’s James Webb Telescope observes massive, rare pre-supernova star

The star, WR 124, is 15,000 lightyears away, located in the Sagitta constellation.

MARCH 16, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The luminous, hot star Wolf-Rayet 124 (WR 124) is prominent at the center of the James Webb Space Telescope’s composite image combining near-infrared and mid-infrared wavelengths of light from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera and Mid-Infrared Instrument.

Asteroid the size of two NFL football fields accidentally discovered by NASA - study

The images were originally meant to be calibration images of a main-belt asteroid, which astronomers discovered 25 years ago. 

FEBRUARY 9, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An asteroid is seen passing by the Earth in a flyby (Illustrative).

ESO scientists capture new stunning image of stellar nursery

The nebula in question is known as the Sh2-54 nebula and is one of the many awe-inspiring cosmic structures located within the tail of the snake constellation Serpens.

JANUARY 4, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The Sh2-54 nebula in the infrared with VISTA.

Why do stars have spikes in NASA's James Webb telescope images?

Images of stars taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope appear with six spikes, while stars in Hubble photos appear with four.

DECEMBER 18, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The first full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe, shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webb’s First Deep Field, in a composite made from images at different wavelengths.