NASA's Webb catches fiery hourglass as new star forms
Protostars like these, which are still cocooned in a dark cloud of dust and gas, have a long way to go before they become full-fledged stars
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Protostars like these, which are still cocooned in a dark cloud of dust and gas, have a long way to go before they become full-fledged stars
New research explains two puzzles about the size of planets, one known as the "radius valley" and the other called "peas in a pod."
WASHINGTON D.C. – Nov. 3, 2022 – Today, six Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) employees received NASA’s highest honors for their exceptional contributions in designing and building NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Scott Willoughby, Charlie...
Computer simulations by Rice University scientists and their collaborators are the first to integrate a model of planet formation and evolution that explains two puzzling observations of exoplanets orbiting distant stars: the rarity of worlds about 1.8 times larger than Earth and the near-identical size of adjacent planets in hundreds of planetary systems.
The cloud is a 2 million light-year-wide hydrogen stream leading from Stephan's Quintet