Young stars in the Milky Way's back yard challenge our understanding of how they form
Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...
Webb Telescope Tracks Formation and Expansion of Carbon-Rich Dust Shells in Star System
Rayet 140, has been closely studied, revealing the formation and outward expansion of carbon-rich dust shells. Data from the ...
Astronomers detect peculiar features in the stellar halo of dwarf galaxy NGC 300
Using the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), an international team of astronomers have performed deep optical ...
This tiny galaxy is answering some big questions
Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. Scientists have reported finding that Leo ...
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NASA's Pandora mission one step closer to probing alien atmospheres
Pandora, a small satellite mission poised to provide in-depth study of at least 20 known planets orbiting distant stars to determine the composition of their atmospheres cleared an important milestone ...
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NASA’s Hubble Traces Hidden History of Andromeda Galaxy
In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...