The Curious Case of Iconic Star Vega’s Missing Planets
Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...
Legendary Star’s Smooth Disk Mystifies Astronomers, Challenges Planet Formation Theories
Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...
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The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made About Neptune
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...
Scientists Discovered a Super-Earth Just Next Door to Us
Earth" planet pretty close to us, just outside our solar system! This planet, called Proxima Centauri b, orbits our nearest neighboring star, Proxima Centauri. It’s called a "Super-Earth" because it’s ...
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will scour Jupiter moon for the ingredients for life
The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted what ... but it’s much farther than Jupiter. Ditto for Saturn’s moon Titan, also suspected of having a subterranean sea. While no ocean worlds have ...
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'Vega continues to be unusual:' Lack of planets around young star puzzles astronomers
A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega has found a surprising lack of planets.
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Night Sky: When to watch for November’s Supermoon
Saturn too will be on view in the southern half of the sky ... the Moon will appear just below the ringed planet on November 10. Rising at around 5.30pm Jupiter makes for a dazzling sight in the ...
Pancakes in space? James Webb Telescope discovers Vega’s unexplainable cosmic flatness
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a remarkably smooth, 'pancake-like' disk of debris surrounding the star ...
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The Secrets of Vega: New Telescope Observations Uncover Star’s Dusty Disk
Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to capture unprecedented details of the extensive debris ...
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An Introduction to the James Webb Space Telescope
JWST, a groundbreaking space observatory, enhances our understanding of the cosmos by studying distant galaxies, star ...
Hubble Captures a Galaxy with Many Lights
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...
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Shape-Shifting Storm: Astronomers Scrutinize Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
Amy Simon of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, lead author of the paper published recently in The ...