A faint orange dot captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could be the most distant galaxy ever detected. The ...
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If you’ve been reading this column lately, you might have noticed a recent trend where I try to answer some deceptively simple questions: What is a planet? What is a moon? What is a star? A recurring ...
Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging ...
In the summer of 2015 Ignacio Trujillo was sifting through deep-sky images when a slice of the constellation Cetus (“whale”) caught his attention. Sourced from a telescope in the universe-mapping ...
NASA's Chandra Observatory has combined different wavelength images of the Andromeda galaxy to honor astronomer Vera Rubin, and then created a music video by converting the light in those images to ...