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JWST’s mid-infrared images of Sagittarius B2 uncover dense clouds of cosmic dust hiding active star formation.

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New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

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Saturn, the jewel of the solar system, has returned to the night sky. The ringed planet rises in the east just as the sun ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to ...

We previously covered one such “gravity telescope” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Another one is the Japanese project Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA).

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.