Fomalhaut star’s warped ring shows evidence of sculpting by ancient planets
The bright star in the center, Fomalhaut, is surrounded by an ancient debris disk of uneven brightness. The disk is...
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Protostellar jet detection in Milky Way’s outer region reveals universal star formation
Protostellar outflows and jets discovered in the outer galaxy. The left panel shows CO line emission images obtained with ALMA...
Astronomers and students capture growing tail of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS during observing program
A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South at Cerro Pachón...
See Voyager’s 1990 ‘Solar System Family Portrait’ debut
Ed Stone, the longtime project scientist of NASA’s Voyager mission, cohosts a news conference on June 6, 1990, during which...
New algorithm hushes unwanted noise in LIGO, may lead to more black hole discoveries
A view from above of LIGO Livingston in Louisiana. Credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, has been...
Zooming in on Pismis 24, Webb gets glittering glimpse of star birth
In what appears as a celestial dreamscape, a blue and black sky is filled with stars of different sizes. Across...
The cosmic giant challenging our understanding of galaxy formation in the early universe
Location of QSO1 on the MBH −M∗ plane. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.21748 Scientists have discovered a giant black hole...
BlueDOGs might evolve from Little Red Dots
Deep Field Image from JWST, showing both BlueDOGs and LRDs. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz),...
Spaceflight accelerates human stem cell aging, researchers find
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from the University of California San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute have discovered that spaceflight...
Study confirms excellent astronomical potential of Muztagh Observation Station
Left: The 10-m tower at North-2 site. Right: The French DIMM and PC-4A environmental monitoring instrument. Credit: Monthly Notices of...
