QUICK FACTS What it is: A planet-forming disk around a star Where it is: 525 light-years away, in the constellation Taurus When it was shared: Aug. 29, 2025 This spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows a star cocooned within a massive disk of gas and dust. It’s a protoplanetary disk — a ring of dense …
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For beings of our size and lifespans, space is pretty big. So big, in fact, that to make it to our nearest star system you would need to factor in the fairly sizeable downside that you will die of old age before you get there. Humanity has focused on making our spaceships more speedy, as well as the possibility of …
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Four centuries from launch, a vast spacecraft could deliver thousands of people to a world orbiting the nearest star. The concept, called Chrysalis, is designed for one purpose — to take humanity to Proxima b, a rocky planet in the Proxima Centauri system that may be able to support life. Its creators picture a self-sufficient habitat where generations would live, …
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