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Looking at images of Earth from space, you might have noticed a conspicuous lack of stars, but it turns out there's a good ...
Just 500 light years away, the Chamaeleon Complex, and in particular its dark cloud Chamaeleon I, is a hotbed of young, ...
Who knew you could get nearly Webb telescope-quality ... space from the comfort of your home? Bob Schiff’s been doing it for a year now with amazing results, using a motorized rig that tracks ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers studied the properties of a planet-forming disk around a young and very low-mass star. The results reveal the richest hydrocarbon ...
A pair of stars in our galaxy is revealing how light pushes around matter. It’s the first time anyone has directly seen how the pressure of light from stars changes the flow of dust in space.
It also shows stars from the vantage point in space. Pettit built his own star tracker, of course, to make this happen. And finally, Earth's atmosphere is a showstopper by itself. Anyway ...
An associate professor of physics and astronomy in Purdue’s College of Science, Milisavljevic (pronounced mili-sahv-la-vich) leads a project team studying images from the James Webb Space Telescope of ...