A young, nearby, massive star, whose protoplanetary disk appears perfectly edge-on, was just viewed by JWST, with staggering implications.
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Hubble transformed astronomers' understanding of the universe.
Physics has a bit of a messy problem: There's matter missing in our universe. Something is there that we can't see but can detect! What could this mysterious substance be? A lot of astronomers are searching for the answer. And some, like theoretical ...
Dark skies away from street lights are required to view this formation attributed to the astronomer Petrus Plancius ...
Photo credit: Don Pettit NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured an incredible photo of a starry night above Earth from the SpaceX Crew 9 Dragon vehicle on the International Space Station (ISS). More specifically, he used his homemade orbital star tracker ...
A tiny star is making big moves -- whether its accomplice likes it or not. Astronomers have spotted a star just a fraction the mass of the Sun crashing through the Milky Way at ridiculous speeds. And astonishingly, it's managed to drag its exoplanet ...
It's probably more than you think ...
Astronomers have detected an exoplanet just twenty light years away that's residing in its star's habitable zone.
I'll back up...I know you need your space ...
Planets are born in swirling disks of gas and dust around young stars.