Astronomers spot young planet shaping spiral arms in dusty stellar disk
The image to the left, taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows a possible planet being born around the...
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Astronomers capture the birth of planets around a baby sun outside our solar system
This image provided by the European Southern Observatory on Tuesday, July 15, 2025, shows jets of silicon monoxide blowing away...
Component reconnection drives filament splitting and double-decker formation in solar physics
The black dashed lines in panel (a) show the brightening threads within the filament that feature a small-angle misalignment. The panels...
Study suggests Orion Nebula, Pleiades and Hyades share a common origin
The constellation of the Orion and the Taurus with three open clusters: the ONC, the Pleiades, and the Hyades. Credit:...
Astronomy Now under new ownership – Astronomy Now
Steven Young (right) symbolically hands over Astronomy Now to Stuart Clark. Credit: Neil Monaghan. Dear Astronomy Now community, We have...
NASA to launch SNIFS, the sun’s next trailblazing spectator
The reddish chromosphere is visible on the Sun’s right edge in this view of the Aug. 21, 2017, total solar...
A star is dissolving its baby planet
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/RIT/A. Varga et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/SAO/M. Weiss; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Stars and planets are naturally associated with...
Astronomers map tangled, supersonic filaments in distant interstellar gas cloud
Concept art of a high-velocity cloud with a complex internal structure. The green color represents the extremely high-velocity HI cloud....
Researchers find distinct variability patterns in jetted active galactic nuclei
Intrinsic variability damping timescale versus black hole mass and gamma-ray luminosity for accreting efficient jetted AGNs. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement...
What has Webb taught us about rocky exoplanets so far?
Artist's impression of Proxima b, the closest rocky exoplanet to Earth. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser The hunt for potentially habitable rocky...
