The star is about 30 times more massive than our sun and has already shed 10 suns’ worth of gas and dust. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently unveiled some breathtaking views of the last stages of a … Read More
A team of international astronomers published a discovery in Nature about a ring system surrounding Quaoar, a dwarf planet that is roughly half the size of Pluto and lies beyond Neptune’s orbit around the Sun. The researchers utilized HiPERCAM, an … Read More
LHS 475 b is a rocky exoplanet roughly the same size as Earth that orbits very close to a small, dim star. And for the first time, researchers are able to study the planet’s atmosphere. The James Webb Space Telescope … Read More
Authors It is no exaggeration to say the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a new era for modern astronomy. Launched on December 25 last year and fully operational since July, the telescope offers glimpses of the universe that were inaccessible … Read More
We thought we had seen everything but JWST just took it to another level. JWST surprised us in October with two new images of the famous Pillars of Creation, a cosmic feature of dust and gas made famous by Hubble. … Read More
It’s been a cloudy season for Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Titan is an strange world, resembling Earth if the land was made of water ice, rivers and seas were filled with liquid methane and other hydrocarbons, and the atmosphere was … Read More