James Webb Space Telescope Looks Behind The Orion Nebula
While the constellation Orion is familiar to stargazers, James Webb Space Telescope looked further to find large clouds…
Astronomers Discover Two Monster Black Holes Creating a Cosmic Void as They Merge
Artistic depiction, for illustrative purposes online. Space is usually crowded at the center of a giant galaxy. Stars…
NASA’s James Webb Telescope found a Saturn-sized planet with Earth-like temperatures and a methane-rich atmosphere |
Somewhere between the scorching extremes of hot Jupiters and the frozen depths of gas giants like Saturn lies…
Constraints On The Crystallinity Of Water Ice In Planet-forming Disks From Infrared Scattered-Light Spectra
Protoplanetary disk images (top row) and scattered-/transmitted-light spectra (bottom-left and bottom-middle) obtained from the radiative-transfer simulations, together with…
A Single Power Law For The TRAPPIST-1 Flare Distribution Across Four Orders Of Magnitude In Energy
Cumulative flare-frequency distribution of TRAPPIST-1. The cumulative occurrence rate ν(≥ ETESS) is shown as a function of TESS-band…
A dead galaxy from the early universe is forcing astronomers to rethink galactic evolution
Space tends to reward expectations. Young galaxies should spin. Gas falls in, gravity takes hold, angular momentum builds,…
Formation And Trapping Of CO2 From Cryogenic Irradiation Of Carbonate
Time-resolved IR spectra from electron irradiation of CaCO3 at 50, 100, and 120 K under two electron fluxes,…
Horizontal Transport As A Source Of Disequilibrium Chemistry On The Nightside Of A Hot Exoplanet
NGTS-10 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a K-type star. Its mass is 2.162 Jupiters, it…
In The Heart Of Planetary Nebula Tc 1, A Buckyball Of Buckyballs
The planetary nebula Tc 1, as observed by JWST’s MIRI mid-infrared instrument, uses a combination of nine filters…
The Identification of CS2 and Evidence for Carbon-Sulfur Chemical Coupling in a Warm Giant Exoplanet Atmosphere
The retrieved transmission spectrum using the results from the free retrieval plotted as a black line, along with…
A planet that tricks physics? Webb reveals the secret behind Saturn’s strange rotation
For decades, Saturn has been playing a strange trick on scientists. Depending on how they measure it, the…
JWST confirmed the most distant galaxy ever observed at 13.5 billion light years away
With James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA has confirmed its sightings of the farthest known galaxy to date,…