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Nearly a millennium ago sky-watchers recorded a new star so bright it was visible in daylight for weeks, and Hubble has now traced how far its remnant, the Crab Nebula, has expanded since " a thousand-year-old explosion still visibly unfolding
1+ hour, 15+ min ago (193+ words) In July 1054, court astronomers in China recorded a new "guest star" near Tianguan, the star we now call Zeta Tauri. It was bright enough to be seen in...
Jupiter-sized planet survives the death of its star | "
2+ hour, 20+ min ago (178+ words) July 11, 2026 at 08: 25 PM "686 "i" WD 1856 b is the only confirmed case of a planet that survived the death of a star similar to the Sun, reports UNN citing Ars Technica. This is a Jupiter-sized world orbiting a white dwarf " the…...
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud
3+ hour, 18+ min ago (269+ words) Explanation: Unlike most entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog of deep sky objects, M24 is not a bright galaxy, star cluster, or nebula. It's a gap in nearby, obscuring interstellar dust clouds that allows a view of the distant stars in…...
Nearby Super-Earth Found in Alien Life Habitable Zone After Scientists Revise Planet's Mass
11+ hour, 22+ min ago (413+ words) A nearby 'super'Earth' just 25 light years from our solar system has been recategorised as a lighter, likely rocky world sitting in the habitable zone of its star, raising fresh hopes in the search for Alien life, according to astronomers behind…...
Astronomers discover unexplained spin pattern in early galaxies
5+ hour, 6+ min ago (350+ words) Lior Shamir, an associate professor of computer science at Kansas State University, analyzed images of 263 early galaxies captured through the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey. Shamir used quantitative shape analysis to determine the rotation of each galaxy. The data revealed…...
James Webb has caught at least five galaxies colliding about 800 million years after the Big Bang, flinging heavy elements out into space far earlier than any model predicted " evidence the early universe was already messy and mature when it should still have been simple
6+ hour, 15+ min ago (758+ words) Published July 11, 2026 A galaxy merger found by the James Webb Space Telescope has made the early universe look less orderly than the standard picture suggests. JWST's Quintet sits in a patch of sky only about 4. 5 arcseconds by 4. 5 arcseconds across, corresponding…...
Astronomers have found 31 of the oldest known quasars burning so soon after the Big Bang that current models struggle to explain how their black holes grew massive enough to power them in the time available
6+ hour, 16+ min ago (101+ words) Euclid was built mainly to map the large-scale universe. Barely into its survey, it has already changed the census of some of the earliest known quasars....
NASA Shares Image Of Merging Galaxy Clusters Helping Decode Dark Matter
14+ hour, 58+ min ago (225+ words) NASA has shared an image from the Hubble Space Telescope showing a massive galaxy cluster that is helping scientists better understand dark matter and the structure of the universe, reported NASA. The image features a galaxy cluster called CL0016+1609, also known…...
How can Jupiter have no surface? A dive into a planet so big, it could swallow 1, 000 Earths
8+ hour, 45+ min ago (937+ words) Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation. com. Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface " even though it doesn't…...
A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star's death
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (432+ words) It's unclear how the planet avoided its star's bloated red giant stage. WD 1856 b is the only confirmed case of a planet that survived the death of a Sun-like star. It's a Jupiter-size world orbiting a white dwarf'the burned-out remnant…...