'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 ...
James Webb Space Telescope: Breathtaking 'Face-On' Views Of 19 Spiral Galaxies
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured 19 spiral galaxies "face-on" in near- and mid-infrared. The images "show stars, gas, and dust on the smallest scales ever observed beyond our own galaxy," ...
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James Webb Space Telescope Captures Saturn's Changing Season
Imagery of Saturn captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is superimposed over an image captured by Hubble. "Yellows ...
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 ...
The Blue Marvel: NASA’s Voyager 2 captured this image of Neptune in the summer of 1989 as it became the first spacecraft to fly by the planet. Neptune's blue color comes from ...
Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.
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'Fastest-feeding' black hole of the early universe found! But does it break the laws of physics?
The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...
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Space Innovations: Wooden Satellites and Primordial Black Holes
Recent advancements in space technology include Japan's launch of the first wooden satellite, cutting-edge research on black holes by NASA's James Webb Telescope, Axiom Space's exploration of Indian ...
Hungriest supermassive black hole discovered in early universe by astronomers
Astronomers have detected the hungriest black hole in the early universe with the help of Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). It has been found that the black hole ...
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'Hawking radiation' may be erasing black holes. Watching it happen could reveal new physics.
Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...
Fastest-Feeding Black Hole of Early Universe Discovered—Does It Defy Physics?
Astronomers discovered a black hole, LID-568, in the early universe growing faster than theoretical limits, discussing how ...
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NASA’s Europa Clipper blasts off in search for alien life on distant moon
Inside two of Manchester’s most iconic music ve ...