Webb peers deeper into mysterious Flame Nebula to find 'failed stars'
The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years ...
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A Distant White Dwarf Is Eating a Jupiter-Sized Planet for Lunch
About 650 light-years from here, in the constellation Aquarius, lies the planetary nebula Caldwell 63, commonly known as the ...
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These mysterious objects born in violent clashes between young star systems aren't stars or planets
Are they stars? Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could ...
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Webb Telescope Unveils Elusive Brown Dwarfs in the Flame Nebula
The Flame Nebula, located 1,400 light-years from Earth, is a region where many stars are forming and is less than a million ...
Killer white dwarf capable of ripping entire planets apart spotted by space scientists
A white dwarf, or dying star, caused the destruction of a Jupiter-sized planet that is only around 650 light years away from ...
X-ray signal from Helix Nebula points to planet destroyed by white dwarf
After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The ...
X-ray Signal from Helix Nebula Suggests Planet Was Destroyed by White Dwarf
Co-author Martin Guerrero from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia told Phys.org that debris from the shattered planet ...
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James Webb Space Telescope Reveals That Most Galaxies Rotate Clockwise
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched into orbit around the sun in December 2021. Since then, it has been ...