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Astronomers have exposed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to its first glimpses of the universe’s most violent and gory events: stars being ripped apart and devoured by black holes. The powerful space telescope discovered the black holes involved in these stellar murders lay in wait, slumbering in dusty galaxies, until their victims approach. Using the James Webb Space Telescope …

A rare celestial portrait captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed an extraordinary and eerie sight: two massive dying stars enveloped in a vast, spiraling shroud of dust, intertwined like cosmic serpents. The image focuses on Apep, a rare Wolf-Rayet binary system, and was the result of a five-year wait by astronomers seeking to understand one of the …

IN A NUTSHELL 🌌 SWRI scientists conducted experiments to explain unexpected hydrogen peroxide levels on Europa. 🔬 The experiments utilized a vacuum chamber to simulate Europa’s conditions, revealing the role of carbon dioxide. 🌊 Findings suggest possible subsurface oceans on Europa that could support life forms like extremophiles. 🚀 Research aligns with upcoming Europa Clipper mission, aiming to explore the …

One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s superpowers is its ability to investigate the cosmic dawn, the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang. The telescope has once again lived up to its reputation, spotting light from a galaxy which existed only 280 million years after the Big Bang, the most distant ever detected. Known as MoM-z14, it …

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of two dying stars wreathed in a spiral of dust. The highly rare star system is located some 8,000 light-years from Earth, within our Milky Way galaxy. Upon its discovery in 2018, it was nicknamed Apep, after the ancient Egyptian serpent god of chaos and destruction, as its writhing …

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Imagine a camera so powerful it can see light from galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago. That’s exactly what NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is built to do. Since it launched in December 2021, Webb has been …

“Alien Chaos Is Real”: James Webb Reveals Europa’s Ice Is Hiding Violent Forces That Shatter NASA’s Understanding of the Solar System  Rude Baguette Scientists may have solved a chemistry mystery about Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa  Space ‘Chaos’ reigns beneath the ice of Jupiter moon Europa, James Webb Space Telescope reveals  Yahoo Home James Webb Space Telescope Made a ‘Puzzling’ Discovery on Jupiter’s Moon …

IN A NUTSHELL 🌌 Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an unusual black hole in the Infinity Galaxy. 💥 The galaxy’s unique infinity shape resulted from a head-on collision of two disk galaxies. 🔭 The discovery challenges traditional theories, suggesting a direct collapse formation of black holes. 🧐 Researchers are analyzing data to confirm if the black hole …

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we’d been awaiting for five long years – an infrared photo of two dying stars we’d requested from the Very Large Telescope in Chile. I gasped – the stars were wreathed in a huge spiral of dust, like a snake eating its own …

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured what they believe are the very first moments of rocky planet formation around a newborn star. Using advanced observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) in Chile, researchers spotted the earliest known traces of planet-building materials around the infant star HOPS-315. A Star Like Our Sun? The …