An international team of astronomers has uncovered a stellar oddity — a white dwarf star heavier than our Sun, created not from the quiet evolution
Continue readingHubble’s Feathered View of a Hidden Giant — NGC 45.
Nestled in the constellation Cetus — the Whale — just 22 million light-years away, the galaxy NGC 45 unfurls its delicate, feather-like spiral arms in
Continue readingA Vanishing World? Webb Spots Possible Giant Planet in Alpha Centauri System.
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found tantalizing evidence of a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A—part of the stellar system closest to
Continue readingTRAPPIST-1 d: The Almost Earth That Wasn’t.
Forty light-years from Earth, in the quiet darkness of the Aquarius constellation, a small red dwarf star named TRAPPIST-1 hosts a remarkable planetary family. Seven
Continue readingA Spiral Beauty with a Mysterious Past – NGC 1309.
Rich with detail and cosmic elegance, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 glows like a celestial jewel in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. Located roughly
Continue readingA Celestial Time Capsule: Exploring NGC 1786 with the Hubble Space Telescope.
In the velvet depths of the cosmos, nestled within the southern constellation Dorado, lies a glittering treasure chest of ancient stars — NGC 1786. Captured
Continue readingAstronomers Spot a Mysterious Black Hole on the Galactic Fringe.
High in the constellation Hercules, about 450 million light-years from Earth, a quiet cosmic drama has been unfolding—largely unseen and until recently, misunderstood. At the
Continue readingIs Uranus Really Emitting Internal Heat?
Uranus… a planet unlike any other in our solar system. Neither its orbit nor its spin matches the norm. It’s tilted so dramatically — almost
Continue readingNASA’s Chandra Observatory Finds Baby Planet Being Eroded by Host Star’s X-Rays.
A very young, Jupiter-sized planet is dramatically shrinking under the intense bombardment of high-energy X-rays from its parent star, according to a new study using
Continue readingAstronomers Discover Potentially First-Ever Newborn Supermassive Black Hole in Unusual ‘Infinity Galaxy’.
In a remarkable discovery that could reshape our understanding of black hole formation, astronomers have identified what may be the first newborn supermassive black hole
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