JWST finds new planet-forming rings around Fomalhaut

JWST finds new planet-forming rings around Fomalhaut

[ad_1] Back to Article List The infrared space telescope has discovered the possible fingerprints of a planetary system in dust rings around the young star. Three nested dust belts surround the star Fomalhaut in this JWST image. A coronagraph blocked the light from...
Record-Breaking Magnetar was There in the Data All Along

Record-Breaking Magnetar was There in the Data All Along

[ad_1] The cosmic zoo has strange beasts that astronomers stumble across in the most fascinating ways. Not long ago a team in Australia found a highly unusual magnetar, one of the weirder denizens of the starry zoo. It’s called GPM J1839-10 and it lies some 15,000...
Hubble sees boulders escaping from asteroid Dimorphos

Hubble sees boulders escaping from asteroid Dimorphos

[ad_1] heic2307 — Photo Release 20 July 2023 Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/ Hubble Space Telescope’s extraordinary sensitivity have discovered a swarm of boulders that were possibly shaken off the asteroid Dimorphos when NASA deliberately slammed the half-tonne DART...