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Webb Telescope Captures Massive Asteroid Collision in Neighboring Star System
SciTechDaily· 2 hours agoAstronomers have captured a snapshot of a giant asteroid collision in Beta Pictoris, revealing...
First Detection of Magnetism in Massive Stars Beyond Our Galaxy
SciTechDaily· 6 days agoNew findings reveal magnetic fields in three massive stars in the Magellanic Clouds, shedding light...
Scientists find a surprise ingredient in exoplanet cake mix — sulfur dioxide
Space via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoPresent models of planet formation describe how gas giants typically form farther out from their ...
NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope captures closest super star cluster to Earth (image)
SPACE.com· 6 hours agoNASA's Chandra X-ray telescope has imaged a star cluster that is "super" in every way. Westerlund 1...
Galactic Bloodlines: Many Nearby Star Clusters Ori | Newswise
Newswise· 4 days agoAn international team of astronomers led by the University of Vienna has deciphered the formation...
NASA’s Webb Reveals Long-Studied Star Is Actually Twins - NASA
NASA· 4 hours agoScientists recently got a big surprise from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope when they turned the...
Earthquake-proof shield for world’s best telescope cleared to proceed
Cosmos· 8 hours agoThe Giant Magellan Telescope’s massive enclosure has been greenlit for construction in Chile. The...
'Supernova discovery machine' James Webb Space Telescope finds most distant star explosion on record
SPACE.com· 2 days agoWhen it comes to hunting for the explosive deaths of massive stars in the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is quite the cosmic detective. This celestial ...
How the Webb and Gaia missions bring a new perspective on galaxy formation
Ars Technica· 4 days agoIn a feat of galactic archeology, astronomers are using ever more detailed information to trace the...
JWST detects aftermath of “cataclysmic” asteroid collision
Cosmos· 1 day agoAstronomers have identified the aftermath of a massive collision between giant asteroids in the Beta Pictoris star system using new data from the James ...