8 images of almost dead stars by NASA James Webb Space Telescope
This phase represents a brief and intense period that only certain massive stars experience shortly before exploding as supernovas.
This black hole just did something theoretically impossible
Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...
'Ridiculously smooth': James Webb telescope spies unusual pancake-like disk around nearby star Vega — and scientists can't explain it
The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...
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Space Cadets, an Interactive NASA Hubble Space Telescope is Coming to Eastern Iowa
The skies over Iowa recently have been filled with Northern Lights on many nights and a comet, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) ...
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Amazing Galactic Imagery Via James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared and Mid-Infrared instruments (NIRCam & MIRI) have delivered imagery of ...
Nearly three years since launch, Webb is a hit among astronomers
From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human ... A ...
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From Wooden Satellites to Dark Matter: Bridging the Cosmos
In recent science news, Japan launched the world's first wooden satellite, LignoSat, testing timber for space use. The Webb ...
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Frontiers of Space: From Wooden Satellites to Primordial Black Holes
Recent advances in space science include Japan's launch of a wooden satellite LignoSat by Kyoto University and Sumitomo Forestry. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals primordial black holes with ...
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Fastest-feeding black hole found in the early universe
Understanding how these black holes managed to grow so rapidly in the early universe has posed significant challenges.
On Election Night, Stare Into the Abyss
I keep the photo archive for the James Webb Space Telescope, the farthest-seeing of them all, in my bookmarks bar. When I ...
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The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made About Neptune
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...