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NASA released stunning images of the NGC 1514 nebula, showcasing the most vivid depiction of its dual rings ever captured.
The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright objects on telescope images. The stars follow a nine-year orbit and are ...
In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE mission, to make infrared observations. This was the latest in a line of space-based, infrared observatories, and it cost about ...
Gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514 came into complete focus thanks to mid-infrared data from the James Webb Space Telescope. Its rings, which are only detected in infrared ...
A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent final stages of a dying star.
The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...
Lingering Brightness Provides Evidence for How the Planet Met Its Demise Each year, scientists from around the world compete for a chance to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Proposals go through ...
The James Webb Space Telescope observed hot gas forming a ring around the star and an expanding cloud of cooler dust, evidence of the aftermath.
It was once thought that when an aging star engulfed a planet it would be a dramatic event. Now, the Webb telescope has ...
In a cosmic event 12,000 light-years away, astronomers have captured, for the first time, the dramatic death of a planet as it was swallowed by its host star—not by expansion, but by a doomed inward ...
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals that planets may spiral into their stars, rather than being swallowed by expanding red ...
In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...