Hidden Wonders: Webb Space Telescope Detects Unexplained Structures in Heart of Milky Way
The play of darkness and light in our galaxy’s crowded core is put on display like never before. A bright field of gas sweeps around…
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Neon Mysteries in the Cosmos: Webb Telescope Rewrites Planet Formation Playbook
The contrast between the James Webb Space Telescope’s observations and those of the Spitzer Space Telescope, just 15 years ago, indicate changing conditions around a…
Webb’s Window Into Cosmic Birth: Ice Pebble Drift Sparks Planetary Life
Drifting pebbles deliver water to the inner regions of planet-forming disks How are planets born? Scientists have long proposed that ice-covered pebbles are the seeds…
Galactic Collision Captured in Stunning Detail: NASA’s Webb & Hubble Unite To Create Most Colorful View of Universe
The result: A vivid landscape of galaxies along with more than a dozen newfound, time-varying objects. When two flagship observatories unite, they reveal a wealth…
Hubble’s Stellar Detective Work: Unmasking the Milky Way’s Hidden Jewel
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a vivid image of the globular star cluster Terzan 12, illustrating how space dust can affect starlight. This colorful…
Crab Nebula’s Puzzling Mysteries Unveiled by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Exquisite, never-before-seen details help unravel the supernova remnant’s puzzling history. Although the Crab Nebula is one of the most well-studied supernova remnants, questions about its…
Cosmic Alchemy: Webb’s First Glimpse Into Heavy Element Creation
Webb’s study of the second-brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen reveals tellurium. Under what conditions many chemical elements are created in the universe has long been…
Webb Space Telescope Reveals New Feature in Jupiter’s Atmosphere – “Totally Surprised Us”
Narrow jet stream near Jupiter’s equator has winds traveling 320 miles per hour. Jupiter has some of the most conspicuous atmospheric features in our solar…
Quartz Showers: Silica Snow Envelops the Fiery Atmosphere of Hot Jupiter Exoplanet
Flakes of silica “snow” fill the skies of puffy, searing-hot exoplanet WASP-17 b. Catching a glimpse of one of the most common and familiar minerals…
NASA’s Webb Reveals Breathtaking Glimpse of Star Birth in Ethereal Depths
Filaments of Dust and Gas Festoon This Star-Forming Region in a New Infrared Image From MIRI Within a neighboring dwarf galaxy known as the Small…
Supernova Bubble Captured in Hubble Time-Lapse Movie – 20,000-Year-Old Explosion Still Expanding at 500,000 MPH
20,000-Year-Old Explosion Continues Expanding Into Space The abrupt, explosive death of a massive star, called a supernova, is one of the biggest blasts in the…
Hubble’s Hitchcock Moment: A Bizarre Explosion in Unexpected Place
Extraordinarily Bright Bursts of Light Found Between Galaxies A clear starry night is deceptively tranquil to backyard skygazers. In reality, the sky is ablaze with…
Life on Jupiter’s Moon? NASA’s Webb Finds Carbon Source on Surface of Europa
Carbon Suggests a Favorable Environment for Life in Subsurface Ocean For as long as humans have gazed into the night sky, we have wondered about…
Webb’s Stellar Capture: Supersonic Outflow From a Newborn Star
Infrared Capabilities Map Out Molecular Structure of Outflow NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a high-resolution look at Herbig-Haro 211 (HH 211), a bipolar…
Beyond Earth: Webb Space Telescope Detects Key Molecules on Exoplanet K2-18 b
Data hints at exoplanet possessing possible liquid ocean surface. Carbon-bearing molecules have been discovered in the atmosphere of the habitable zone exoplanet K2-18 b by…
Cosmic Light Switch: NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Proves Galaxies Transformed the Early Universe
Early galaxies’ stars allowed light to travel freely by heating and ionizing intergalactic gas, clearing vast regions around them. Cave divers equipped with brilliant headlamps…
Webb Space Telescope Reveals Mysterious Arcs: Intricate Details in the Remains of a Dying Star
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals the intricate details of the Ring Nebula, suggesting the role of binary companions in shaping planetary nebulae’s complex structures….
Neptune’s Vanishing Cloud Mystery: Astronomers Discover a Solar Connection
As Sunspots Come and Go, So Does the Cloudy Weather on the Blue Giant Planet Weather forecast for Neptune: After sunny weather for the past…
