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Astronomers Spot Cataclysmic Collision of Giant Asteroids in Nearby Star System
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 1 day agoNearly 20 years ago, astronomers observed a massive cloud of fine dust particles around a young star...
'Supernova discovery machine' James Webb Space Telescope finds most distant star explosion on record
SPACE.com· 8 hours agoNot only is this 10 times more supernovas than have been uncovered before in such early cosmic history, but the sample also includes the earliest and furthest supernova ever ...
Astronomers detect evidence of possible asteroid collisions in ‘teenage’ solar system
Courthouse News Service· 2 days agoThe lead scientist on the study, John Hopkins astronomer Christine Chen, said she and her team made...
7 potential 'alien megastructures' spotted in our galaxy are not what they seem
LiveScience· 1 day agoA team of astronomers combed through a collection of odd stars that are candidates for Dyson spheres — artificial constructs designed by aliens to leech energy from stars.
Youthful galaxy in the early universe was a heavy metal rebel
SPACE.com· 2 days agoThe most distant carbon ever seen has been discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in a galaxy that we see as it existed just 350 million years after the Big Bang. The detection ...
Earliest, most distant galaxy discovered with James Webb Space Telescope
UC Newsroom· 5 days agoAn international team of astronomers today announced the discovery using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of the two earliest and most distant galaxies yet confirmed ...
Scientists spot more Milky Way-like galaxies in early universe
Science Daily· 22 hours agoIn a new study, the Mizzou researchers have discovered that spiral galaxies were more common in the early universe than previously thought. "Scientists formerly believed most ...
Polarized light yields fresh insight into mysterious fast radio bursts
Ars Technica· 13 hours agoAstronomers have been puzzling over the origins of mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) since the...
How the Webb and Gaia missions bring a new perspective on galaxy formation
Ars Technica· 2 days agoastronomers are able to peer back in time and look at some of the oldest stars and galaxies. Between...
James Webb telescope reveals 'cataclysmic' asteroid collision in nearby star system
Live Science via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoThe James Webb Space Telescope has caught a snapshot of two massive asteroids colliding in a nearby...