MEGATRON simulations connect the first stars with the universe’s smallest galaxies
MEGATRON simulations offer a possible explanation for the similar iron content of many of the smallest galaxies.Radiation delayed…
“Transmission Strings” mapping reveals 3D shape of exoplanet atmospheres
The shape of WASP-17b’s atmosphere mapped using transmission strings. The planet has a broad banded jet around the…
Supercomputer Simulations Reveal How the First Stars Changed the Universe
The purple cosmic web of gas feeds intense star formation in the first galaxies. As stars live and…
In 2013, astronomers discovered two rings around 250-km-wide Chariklo; nine years later, James Webb found the inner ring more opaque and the outer ring weaker
Credit: L. Maquet, Observatoire de Paris In 2013, astronomers discovered two narrow rings around Chariklo, a 250-kilometre-wide minor…
Astronomers Expected More Tiny Worlds Beyond Neptune – Webb Found Something Else
This artist’s concept depicts a Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO), a small, faint, icy body orbiting the Sun beyond the…
Tiny Worlds Beyond Neptune Reveal Solar System Secrets
Beyond Neptune, there is a region consisting of icy worlds which are so faint and remote that even…
JWST Captures Stunning Evidence of How Supermassive Black Holes Feed
An image of elliptical galaxy NGC4696 located at the center of the Centaurus Cluster taken by the Hubble…
10 Things To Know About NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Before Its Aug. 30 Launch
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, named after NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy. If all goes to plan,…
Space mystery leads scientists to discovery of ‘black hole stars’
Astronomers identify new type of ‘black hole star’ in universe while hunting space mystery A black hole star…
NASA’s James Webb Telescope Captures a Dying Star Sculpting a Cosmic Lion
The James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged planetary nebula NGC 2392, which is nicknamed the Lion Nebula due…
Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star
When Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have inadvertently been onto something. In a new paper in…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope To Launch This Month — Nine Months Ahead Of Schedule
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, named after NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy, will launch this month. NASA…