The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it would be under an inch across. This profound density gives black holes ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a powerful tool for exploring space, launched in December 2021. It can see faraway ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but smaller than stars — beyond the Milky Way for the first time ever.

At this point, astronomers are used to the James Webb Space Telescope pushing the boundaries of astronomy — so it is little ...

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The discovery provides valuable insights into star formation processes under conditions similar to the early universe.

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