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This long-studied star is actually a stellar duo: 'We were absolutely stunned'
SPACE.com· 6 days agoShrouded in a dense cloud of gas and dust, a young star in the constellation Ophiuchus that...
Webb observations hint at giant asteroid collision in a nearby planetary system
AccuWeather· 6 days agoAn illustration depicts colliding asteroids around the central star in the Beta Pictoris system and...
Black holes formed quasars less than a billion years after Big Bang
Ars Technica· 6 days agoThe seeming impossibility of supermassive black holes in the early Universe was already a bit of a...
Eccentric Oddities: Surprise Discovery of Mysterious Mini-Neptune Exoplanets
SciTechDaily· 6 days agoResearchers discovered four mini-Neptunes with volatile-rich compositions around red dwarfs, using...
Ionospheric irregularities at Jupiter observed by JWST - Nature Astronomy
Nature· 3 days agoThe extent to which the non-auroral upper atmosphere of Jupiter is coupled to the convective-radiative atmosphere below and to the magnetosphere above is largely unknown because ground-based ...
Unexpected Find: Webb Discovers Mystery Sulfur on Distant Planet
SciTechDaily· 7 days agoGJ 3470 b is a gas dwarf with unexpected sulfur dioxide in its atmosphere. This discovery provides...
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 6 days agoNASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990, and in the decades since scientists have benefitted from its unprecedented views far beyond our galaxy. NASA will need to safely bring it back ...
The Hubble Space Telescope is back in business
The Register· 6 days agoThe Hubble Space Telescope has resumed science operations in single-gyro mode after one of its three remaining gyros was declared suspect. For now,...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Etched into Collier Trophy, Aerospace History - NASA
NASA· 6 days agoNASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has been immortalized at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum...
It’s Twins! Astronomers Discover Parallel Disks and Jets Erupting from a Pair of Young Stars - Good...
GoodNewsNetwork· 5 days agoAstronomers were thrilled when they received the news that they were expecting twins—stars that is,...