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JWST detects aftermath of “cataclysmic” asteroid collision
Cosmos· 6 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 Space Telescope (JWST). Located about ...
NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope captures closest super star cluster to Earth (image)
SPACE.com· 5 days agoNASA's Chandra X-ray telescope has imaged a star cluster that is "super" in every way. Westerlund 1...
Webb observations hint at giant asteroid collision in a nearby planetary system
CNN.com· 2 days ago“The James Webb Telescope: Are We Alone?” on The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper offers an inside...
Tug life: How Saint John tugboats are pushing toward the future
CBC via Yahoo News· 1 day agoOn an overcast June morning in Saint John, a massive, tangerine-orange tanker — the Da Hua Shan,...
Hubble Captures a Cosmic Fossil
NASA· 23 hours agoThis NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster NGC 2005. It’s not an unusual globular cluster in and of itself, but it is a peculiarity when compared to its surroundings ...
Houston, we no longer have a problem: NASA’s Voyager 1 back in operation
Fox Weather via Yahoo News· 3 days agoVoyager 1 is the most distant spacecraft from Earth at over 15 billion miles away. On Friday, NASA...
‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ explosion expected to happen over summer, NASA says
KIRO 7 Seattle-Tacoma· 6 days agoA rare light eruption from a dead star could possibly be visible this summer on Earth, scientists...
The strange new worlds scientists have discovered this year
Mashable· 3 days agoAstronomers continue to discover worlds beyond Earth's solar system, detecting hundreds of new ones...
Three bright stars mark the beginning of summer. Here's how to spot the 'Summer Triangle' this week.
LiveScience· 22 hours agoClimbing above the horizon at this time of year is a group of stars called the Summer Triangle, a...
A Giant Interstellar Cloud May Have Once Enveloped Earth, Potentially Causing Ice Ages
Smithsonian Magazine· 4 days agoFor a long period ending only about 12,000 years ago, our planet withstood a series of harsh ice...