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Dark matter may ignite brown dwarfs into glowing “dark dwarfs” Only self-annihilating dark matter types would create this effect James Webb Telescope may already be able to detect dark dwarfs ...
Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing ...
NASA’s James Webb Telescope captures the "Cosmic Owl," a rare galactic formation resembling an owl’s face. See stunning images.
ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...
Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...
What happens when two rare ring galaxies collide? They form an infinity symbol—or the face of a cosmic owl, depending on how ...
This stunning image dubbed 'Cosmic Owl' captures a remarkable moment in deep space, billions of light years away.
Brown dwarfs are too small to sustain the nuclear fusion that powers most stars, so they cool and fade over time. But if they ...
Images of the cosmos, such as the James Webb Space Telescope’s deep space snapshot, make space look chock-full of stuff. In the grand scheme of things, it is, but all those stars, galaxies, planets, ...
Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than ...
Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...
A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...