Artist's conception of a large gas giant planet orbiting a small red dwarf star called TOI-5205. CREDIT Image by Katherine Cain, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science. A team of astronomers ...
A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...
Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...
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Astronomers just found a star that defies physics
Astronomers have flagged a distant stellar object so extreme that, on paper, it should not exist. Its mass, brightness and ...
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The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Alaknanda, a remarkably mature spiral galaxy existing just 1.5 billion years ...
In the vast darkness of the early universe, a spiral of light named Zhúlóng offers a new glimpse into cosmic history. This galaxy, shaped like our Milky Way, formed just a billion years after the Big ...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A team led by an Indiana University astronomer has found a sample of massive galaxies with properties that suggest they may have formed relatively recently. This would run counter ...
A recent astronomical discovery has shaken long-held beliefs about how planets form. For decades, scientists thought that stars much smaller than our Sun couldn't form giant planets. That theory just ...
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Astronomers reveal 400 sibling star clusters in the Milky Way
New mapping of the Milky Way has uncovered a vast family tree of stellar siblings, revealing that hundreds of star clusters ...
The two planets circling Kepler-36, a sun-like star in its senior years, are as different as Earth and Neptune. But unlike the hundreds of millions of miles that separate our solar system's rocky ...
Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our Sun. Like many small stars, it is not expected to provide suitable conditions for the formation and ...
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