by rmil2k | Jun 8, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Star formation is one of the oldest processes in the Universe. In the Milky Way and most other galaxies, it unfolds in cold, dark creches of gas and dust. Astronomers study sites of star formation to understand the process. Even though they know much about it,...
by rmil2k | Jun 8, 2023 | News
[ad_1] ESA’s exoplanet mission Cheops confirmed the existence of four warm exoplanets orbiting four stars in our Milky Way. These exoplanets have sizes between Earth and Neptune and orbit their stars closer than Mercury our Sun.These so-called mini-Neptunes are unlike...
by rmil2k | Jun 8, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Scientists may finally know what made the largest explosion in the universe ever seen by humankind so powerful.Astronomers have discovered that the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever seen had a unique jet structure and was dragging an unusually large amount...
by rmil2k | Jun 8, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Back to Article List JWST focuses its infrared gaze on bright star-forming regions within a barred spiral galaxy. A composite of two images taken James Webb Space Telescope. A far cry from the beautiful wide-field shots of barred spiral NGC 5068 you may be used...
by rmil2k | Jun 7, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Things tend to move from the simple to the complex when you’re trying to understand something new. This is the situation exoplanet scientists find themselves in when it comes to the term ‘habitable.’ When they were discovering the first tranche of exoplanets,...