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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…