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James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Hidden Bar in Messier 77
12+ hour, 48+ min ago (394+ words) The james webb space telescope has captured a new mid-infrared image of Messier 77, also called the Squid Galaxy, and the view exposes a central bar that optical wavelengths hide. The galaxy sits about 45 million light-years from Earth, so Webb is…...
45 exoplanets that could support life: Proxima Centauri b included
6+ hour, 53+ min ago (540+ words) Astronomers identified 45 planets that could support life, including Proxima Centauri b, TRAPPIST-1f, and Kepler 186f. With over 6, 000 exoplanets discovered beyond the Solar System, this marks a major step in the search for extraterrestrial life. 45 Planets Identified as Potentially Habitable by Astronomers,…...
Reanalyzed Hubble data challenges Europa plume claims | Space
10+ hour, 12+ min ago (337+ words) Reanalyzed Hubble data challenges Europa plume claims Labroots Reanalyzed Hubble data challenges Europa plume claims What can the vapor plumes on Jupiter's moon Europa teach scientists about the small moon's atmosphere? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy…...
Reanalyzed Hubble data challenges Europa plume claims
10+ hour, 12+ min ago (337+ words) Labroots Reanalyzed Hubble data challenges Europa plume claims What can the vapor plumes on Jupiter's moon Europa teach scientists about the small moon's atmosphere? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as a team…...
Scientists found stardust trapped in Antarctic ice. What could it tell us about our solar system?
6+ hour, 52+ min ago (481+ words) "This dust can penetrate the shielding of the solar system and end up on Earth." Radioactive stardust remnants from stellar explosions have been found trapped in ice in Antarctica. These cosmic remains serve as clues that help uncover the history…...
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Unraveling NGC 3169
8+ hour, 20+ min ago (122+ words) Explanation: Spiral galaxy NGC 3169 looks to be unraveling like a ball of cosmic yarn. It lies some 70 million light-years away, south of bright star Regulus toward the faint constellation Sextans. Wound up spiral arms are pulled out into sweeping tidal…...
Hubble Space Telescope Peers into Post-Starburst Galaxy
11+ hour, 6+ min ago (441+ words) NGC 1266 appears frozen between two cosmic identities, offering astronomers a close-up look at how star formation shuts down. This Hubble image reveals the lenticular galaxy NGC 1266; reddish-brown clumps and filaments of dust partially obscure the galaxy's full face, while red,…...
Figure. [IMAGE] | Eurek Alert! Science News Releases
11+ hour, 40+ min ago (48+ words) Figure. (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! Significant acceleration of prediction of thermoelectric device performance using AI model TEGNet (shortening the computational time to about 1/10, 000 of the time conventionally needed) Takao Mori, National Institute for Materials Science More on this News Release TEGNet:…...
Cosmic Rays as Drivers and Diagnostics of Galaxy Evolution
8+ hour, 19+ min ago (317+ words) Durham University 20 May 2026 - 20 May 2026 OCW017 (Ogden Centre West) Cosmic Rays as Drivers and Diagnostics of Galaxy Evolution Dr Ellis R. Owen from the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute in Japan presents this talk/seminar, titled 'Cosmic Rays as Drivers and Diagnostics of Galaxy…...