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"These are the first JWST observations of tidal disruption events, and they look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before." ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of interacting galaxies Arp 142. Arp 142 consists of a distorted ...
Webb has been orbiting more than a million miles from Earth, capturing breathtaking images of deep space. But how does it ...
The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...
Captured in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope, the peculiar star system Apep consists of two dying stars ...
The pair of galaxies merging into what is now known as the Infinity Galaxy (so named because of its uncanny resemblance to ...
The study, which was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society earlier this year, claims that our universe may exist inside a black hole.
The universe is expanding, but two exquisitely precise yardsticks say it’s doing so at two different speeds. That’s not a ...
A large sub-Neptune-sized planet revolving around a red dwarf star 124 light years away has been the topic of debate among ...
A new study by astronomers at the University of Western Ontario suggests and asteroid strike in 2032 could create hundreds of ...
For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has observed several tidal disruption events — when a black hole draws in ...
However, these “dormant” singularities will occasionally come into contact with stars and other objects as they move around the galaxy. If they come too close, these objects are gobbled up by the ...