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A Giant Baby Star Is Hiding In This Rare Hubble Space Telescope Snapshot

Stars come in various sizes and ages, with some being significantly younger and more massive than the Sun.

Hubble Space Telescope plays a crucial role in capturing images of young, massive stars hidden behind stardust clouds. [ more ]

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Look! This Warped Galaxy Is Erupting With New Stars From Inside Its Tail

Galaxy AM 1054-325 has a distorted shape due to its close encounter with another galaxy.

The tidal tail of the galaxy is where new stars are forming due to the interactions between galaxies. [ more ]

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4 months ago

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Hubble Detects Uber-Strong Radio Transmission From Ancient "Blob"

The Hubble Space Telescope has observed the possible birthplace of the most distant fast radio burst ever observed.

The fast radio burst originated from a group of at least seven galaxies that existed when the universe was five billion years old. [ more ]

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Scientists Discover Sandwich-Shaped Star

Star resembling a sandwich found 800 light years away, offering insight into early star system formation.

Named 'Dracula's Chivito' due to its 'fangs' resembling a sandwich, akin to 'Gomez's Hamburger' discovered in 1985. [ more ]

Ars Technica

Daily Telescope: A stunning image of a star cluster in a nearby galaxy

The image features a nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby small galaxy.

The bright spot in the middle of the image is a bright young star surrounded by diffraction spikes. [ more ]

Ars Technica

5 months ago

Daily Telescope: A snapshot of 500,000 stars near the center of the galaxy

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a star-forming region named Sagittarius C, 300 light-years from the Milky Way's central black hole.

The image contains about 500,000 stars and will provide important insights into stellar formation.

The image shows a dense cluster with a massive protostar and smaller infrared-dark clouds where future stars are forming. [ more ]

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Webb Telescope Uncovers Startling Phenomenon Growing Inside The Milky Way

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured new images of the heart of the Milky Way, revealing insights into the origin of the universe.

The images offer clues about how a cosmic environment impacts star formation and show previously unseen details of the galactic center.

JWST's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) captured a dense and abundant star-forming region called Sagittarius C, including a pink pocket of massive protostars. [ more ]

Mail Online

5 months ago

NASA's James Webb captures our Milky Way in 'unprecedented detail'

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured an image of the heart of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail.

The image shows over 50,000 stars and chaotic clouds at the galactic center, providing new insights into star formation in this extreme environment.

JWST's infrared camera, NIRCam, was used to capture the image and detect light from the earliest stars and galaxies in formation. [ more ]

Engadget

5 months ago

Webb telescope images show an unprecedented and 'chaotic' view of the center of our galaxy

The James Webb telescope has captured stunning images of the center of the Milky Way galaxy in unprecedented detail.

The region, called Sagittarius C, is about 300 light-years from the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A and boasts over 500,000 stars and clusters of protostars. [ more ]

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2 weeks ago

Whoa! The Webb Telescope Zoomed Way into the Iconic Horsehead Nebula

Astronomers use telescopes like JWST's MIRI and NIRCam to study the Horsehead Nebula and its chemistry for insights into star system formation. [ more ]

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A Discovery Near the Dawn of the Time Has Revealed Something Fundamental About the Universe

Researchers have found evidence that gas outflows from quasars can suppress the formation of new stars in the early universe.

The study used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a quasar moving away from Earth when the universe was less than a billion years old. [ more ]

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Daily Telescope: Webb telescope reveals breathtaking structure of galaxies

The James Webb Space Telescope observed 19 face-on spiral galaxies to gain new insights into these galaxies and their similarities to the Milky Way.

The images from Webb reveal large, spherical holes in the gas and dust of the galaxies, which may have been created by exploding stars. [ more ]

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Berkeley astrophysicist Gibor Basri interprets the stars

Look at starlight to travel to the stars

Astrophysicists have made remarkable imaginative leaps in understanding space [ more ]

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This Astrophysicist Makes Stellar Nurseries That Fit in the Palm of Your Hand

Art and science have shared elements like storytelling.

Stellar nurseries are complex structures holding key insights into star formation. [ more ]

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