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Webb telescope sees the prelude to a supernova

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a rare glimpse of a massive star 15,000 light-years away shedding a halo of...

Shadows in the Big Bang Afterglow Reveal Invisible Cosmic Structures

IntroductionNearly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the primordial plasma of the infant universe cooled enough for the first atoms to coalesce, making space...

Black Holes Will Eventually Destroy All Quantum States, Researchers Argue

IntroductionAt Princeton University in the early 1970s, the celebrated theoretical physicist John Wheeler could be spotted in seminars or impromptu hallway discussions drawing a...

Spiral arms of gas and dust spotted around a massive protostar

For the first time, spiral arms of gas and dust have been seen within a disc swirling around a massive protostar,...

Astronomers discover metal-rich galaxy in early universe

Feb 27, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Scanning the first images of a well-known early galaxy taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Cornell astronomers...

How Will the Universe End?

IntroductionOur universe has a beginning. And someday, it will have an end too — but which one? As the cosmos expands and the stars...

Envisioning the next generation of space telescopes

At the 241st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Seattle in January, many astronomers celebrated while getting down to work. The conference,...

Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe’s First Stars

IntroductionA group of astronomers poring over data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has glimpsed light from ionized helium in a distant galaxy,...

A new model for dark matter

Jan 24, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries of modern physics. It is clear that it must exist, because...

Ripples in the fabric of the universe may reveal the start of time

Jan 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Scientists have advanced in discovering how to use ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves to peer back to...

Standard Model of Cosmology Survives a Telescope’s Surprising Finds

IntroductionThe cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) opened its lens last...

Milky Way-Like Galaxies Found in the Early Universe by the JWST #SpaceSaturday

The James Webb Space Telescope has been looking back in time, and it has found something surprising. Astronomers call our Milky way galaxy is...

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