Shaoni Bhattacharya

Recent articles by Shaoni Bhattacharya

Artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disc. Our Solar System may have looked like this in its infancy. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada

What is stardust?

Spiral galaxy NGC 1300, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

The shape of galaxies: reconfiguring Hubble’s tuning fork

The Cigar Galaxy M82, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin), M. Mountain (STScI) and P. Puxley (NSF).

How do galactic winds affect the evolution of galaxies?

An artist's impression of the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft passing near Earth. Credit: JAXA

Hayabusa 2: Japan’s asteroid return mission

Artist's impression of a gamma-ray burst. Credit: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/istock/getty images

What is a gamma ray burst?

To create an off-Earth habitat, water could be added to a basic structure to allow fungi to grow around its frame. Credit: Redhouse

Mushrooms on Mars: NASA could grow bases using fungi

Dr Simona Giacintucci

How astronomers discovered the biggest explosion in the Universe

An artist's impression of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA

James Webb Space Telescope How will JWST observe the Universe?

A view of the Mayall Telescope (tallest telescope, right) at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab; © 2010-2019 The Regents of the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

How the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument could solve one of the Universe’s biggest mysteries

NASA’s MESSENGER mission monitored Mercury’s magnetic fields, revealing they flowed down (blue) and up (red). Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Understanding Mercury’s magnetic poles

Willy Benz, Principal Investigator of the CHEOPS spacecraft. Credit: SPACE/UNIBE/Alessandro Della Bella

Interview How ESA's CHEOPS mission will study exoplanets

What will happen when our Sun dies? This is an image of our host star captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA.

What will happen when the Sun dies?

Jeff Bezos pictured with a model of Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander. Credit: Blue Origin

Will NASA return humans to the Moon? We asked a space exploration expert