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This Stunning NASA Twin Star Discovery Leaves Astronomers Slack-Jawed
HotHardware· 3 days agoNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) once again has surprised scientists with a new revelation...
Webb Telescope Captures Massive Asteroid Collision in Neighboring Star System
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoAstronomers have captured a snapshot of a giant asteroid collision in Beta Pictoris, revealing...
Behold! Fresh Eye Candy (and Science) from the Euclid Space Telescope
Scientific American· 3 days agoDark matter has gravity, so it influences the way normal matter moves around and clumps up in...
Webb observations hint at giant asteroid collision in a nearby planetary system
CNN via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoObservations made by two telescopes of the Beta Pictoris system, located 63 light-years from Earth,...
NASA’s Webb Reveals Long-Studied Star Is Actually Twins
NASA· 4 days agoScientists recently got a big surprise from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope when they turned the observatory toward ...
Astronomers Should Take a Deeper Look at Naming
Scientific American· 6 days agoJames E. Webb was NASA’s second administrator and an advocate for injecting more science into the overwhelmingly politically motivated Apollo missions.
Scientists spot massive asteroid collision — in another solar system
Mashable· 6 days agoBeta Pictoris is known to have two gas giant planets, and is seen as a place where rocky worlds...
Webb spots dust cloud 100,000x larger than dinosaur-extinction asteroid
Interesting Engineering· 7 days agoChen’s team detected notable variations in the energy signatures emitted by dust grains surrounding...
JWST detects aftermath of “cataclysmic” asteroid collision
Cosmos· 5 days agoAstronomers have identified the aftermath of a massive collision between giant asteroids in the Beta Pictoris star system using new data from the James Webb
Astronomers discover something erupting from pair of young stars
Fox Bangor· 4 days agoThe observations, in wavelengths outside of the visible spectrum, were made by the U.S. National...