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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures stunning planetary nebulae — colourful cosmic clouds formed by dying stars, showcasing ...
It wasn’t until NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) turned its eye to the scene that the story took an unexpected turn.
NASA is celebrating Hubble telescope's 35th year in space with top images including this picture of Mars, revealing the thin ...
The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world ...
Kohoutek 4-55 is a dazzling planetary nebula captured in vivid color by the Hubble Space Telescope. Formed by the dramatic death of a giant star, this cosmic cloud glows with energized gases and ...
T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the Blaze Star, is a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. It periodically explodes in a recurring nova every 79 years or so, and it’s due ...
The end was quite dramatic, as evidenced by the aftermath documented by Webb. The orbiting telescope, which was launched in 2021 and became operational in 2022, observed hot gas likely forming a ring ...
The new JWST observations resolve the pair of rings clearly and also show the clumps and filaments in more detail. Inside the rings is cloud-like material that appears turbulent, while just outside of ...
Two years ago, a star on its deathbed was charged with a heinous act — eating a planet — in a system 12,000 light-years away ...
The two brightest nighttime stars available in the Minnesota and Wisconsin sky are Sirius and Arcturus. April is the only ...
The nearby T Coronae Borealis system could still explode any day now, but calculations suggest the next best chance for fireworks is later this year.
We are seeing vast clouds of ionized atoms and molecules, thrown into space by a dying star ... final display at the end of a giant star's life. Once a red giant star has exhausted its available ...