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NASA’s Webb Telescope Catches First-Ever Death of a Planet — But It Didn’t Happen the Way Scientists Thought
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed that the first star believed to have swallowed a planet did not expand to ...
Webb's autopsy of planet swallowed by star yields surprise
Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is ...
Our closest neighboring galaxy may be being torn apart
A team led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring ...
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This Telescope Could Finally Spot Planet Nine and Unlock Secrets of Our Solar System
Astronomers have long suspected that an enormous, unseen planet is hiding somewhere far beyond Neptune, quietly shaping the ...
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If Planet Nine is out there, this telescope might actually find it
A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...
New astronomy trail debuts in Tucson, a city protective of its dark skies
A new trail in this southern Arizona city plots the most visitor-friendly astronomy stops—and there are plenty to choose from ...