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IN A NUTSHELL ✨ James Webb Space Telescope celebrates its third year by exploring the intricate Cat’s Paw Nebula. 🔭 Webb’s advanced infrared capabilities reveal hidden processes of star formation within the nebula. 🔍 The telescope’s instruments, like NIRCam, offer unprecedented clarity, detailing the lifecycle of stars. 🚀 Webb’s discoveries pave the way for future missions, enhancing our understanding of …

For the first time ever, scientists have captured incredible images of an alien star system being born. The image shows the very earliest moments of planet formation, when hot minerals are just beginning to solidify around a distant star, according to a statement. The researchers published their findings July 16 in the journal Nature. Two telescopes worked together to reveal …

Using the world’s most advanced radio telescopes, astronomers have discovered a spinning dead star so rare, strange and unique that they have dubbed it a “cosmic unicorn.” The unique properties of this object, CHIME J1634+44, challenge our current understanding of spinning dead stars and their environments. CHIME J1634+44, also known as ILT J163430+445010 (J1634+44), is part of a class of …

The newly discovered “interstellar visitor” 3I/ATLAS can be seen shining like a rainbow-colored string of cosmic pearls in a trippy new timelapse image captured by a telescope in Hawaii. The interloper was discovered on July 1, and within 24 hours NASA confirmed it was an interstellar object — an ejected piece of an alien star system that is shooting through …

DC is pulling no punches this fall with DC K.O., a massive new comic book event from powerhouse writers Joshua Williamson and Scott Snyder, kicking off in October. Picture a high-stakes cosmic tournament where heroes and villains are thrown into gladiator-style battles across a colossal, Earth-risen arena, each level more brutal and symbolic than the last. The goal? Generate enough …

Astronomers have discovered a massive new solar system body located beyond the orbit of Pluto. The weird elongated orbit of the object suggests that if “Planet Nine” exists, it is much further from the sun than thought, or it has been ejected from our planetary system altogether. The strange orbit of the object, designated 2023 KQ14 and nicknamed “Ammonite,” classifies …

Earth Could Be in a Massive Cosmic Bubble That’s Warping the Universe, Astrophysicists Reveal  SciTechDaily Earth may be trapped inside a giant void in space, say scientists  BBC Science Focus Magazine Big-Bang echoes unmask a billion-light-year hole around Earth—and it’s stretching space faster  ScienceDaily Sound of The Big Bang Suggests Our Galaxy Floats Inside a Void  ScienceAlert Is Earth inside a huge void? ‘Sound …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system. It’s an unprecedented snapshot of “time zero,” scientists reported Wednesday, when new worlds begin to gel. “We’ve captured a direct glimpse of the hot region …

Scientists predict one of the major surveys by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may reveal around 100,000 celestial blasts, ranging from exploding stars to feeding black holes. Roman may even find evidence of some of the universe’s first stars, which are thought to completely self-destruct without leaving any remnant behind. Cosmic explosions offer clues to some of the …

Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New research suggests that some of these cosmic fiends could have accomplices, Renfields to their Draculas, in the form of a third star in their systems, facilitating their fateful encounter. These systems are known as cataclysmic variables, and their occupant vampire …