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"These are the first JWST observations of tidal disruption events, and they look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before." ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of the N79 nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ...
Webb has been orbiting more than a million miles from Earth, capturing breathtaking images of deep space. But how does it ...
The James Webb Space Telescope's s MIRI and NIRCam instruments have captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 2090. The ...
The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...
Captured in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope, the peculiar star system Apep consists of two dying stars ...
“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their ...
The study, which was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society earlier this year, claims that our universe may exist inside a black hole.
A large sub-Neptune-sized planet revolving around a red dwarf star 124 light years away has been the topic of debate among ...
The universe is expanding, but two exquisitely precise yardsticks say it’s doing so at two different speeds. That’s not a ...
A new study by astronomers at the University of Western Ontario suggests and asteroid strike in 2032 could create hundreds of ...
For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has observed several tidal disruption events — when a black hole draws in ...