Newborn stars surround a planet-forming disk 450 million light years away
The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.
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Star cluster reveals its colors in stunning 80-million-pixel image
Meet the colorful extravaganza of the RCW 38 stellar nursery, located some 5500 light-years away from us, in the constellation Vela. With its bright streaks and swirls, this birthplace of stars is ...
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The incredible image that NASA captured of stars located about 26,000 light-years from Earth
The first planet detected in a Sun-like star, in 1995, was 51 Pegasi b, located 50 light-years from Earth. It is a gas giant with half the mass of Jupiter in an extremely close orbit to its star ...
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More Than 100 Black Holes Are Hiding Within This Large Cluster Of Stars Located 80,000 Light-Years Away
A cross the sky, more than 100 stellar-mass black holes are hidden within a large cluster of stars. The star cluster is named Palomar 5, and it stretches out over 30,000 light-years. It is located ...
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Exoplanets: Alien Worlds
That world was detected around the sunlike star 51 Pegasi, a mere 50 light-years from Earth. The rate of exoplanet discovery has since climbed rapidly thanks to the development of three main ...