Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 ...
In the late 1940s, the US Naval Research Laboratory used a few German-built V2 rockets to study cosmic rays from above Earth’s atmosphere. To do this, a nitrogen-powered cloud chamber was ...
A mysterious cosmic cloud of gas and dust harbors secrets that could unlock the origins of our solar system. A team of astronomers, led by MIT researchers, has identified a molecule called pyrene ...