NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope dissected the Crab Nebula’s structure, aiding astronomers as they continue to evaluate leading theories about…
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Researchers investigated three mysterious objects in the early universe. Shown here are their color images, composited from three NIRCam filter…
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Artist’s impression of the bright core region of a quasar, an active galaxy. The supermassive black hole in the centre…
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RS Puppis, one of the most luminous Cepheid variable stars, rhythmically brightens and dims over a six-week cycle. Credit: NASA,…
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Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the Universe. The material inside gets squeezed so hard that scientists…
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The Cosmic Gems arc as observed by the JWST. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Bradley (STScI), A. Adamo (Stockholm…
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Researchers have linked the periodic pulses of neutron stars to internal glitches influenced by superfluid vortices, with a new model…
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During the collision of binary neutron stars, hot neutrinos can briefly become trapped at the interface, staying out of equilibrium…
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Physicists at UC Berkeley immobilized small clusters of cesium atoms (pink blobs) in a vertical vacuum chamber, then split each…
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Illustration of a tidal disruption event (TDE). A novel technique by MIT and NASA scientists employs accretion disk wobbles from…
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