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Sagittarius C: Webb provides closest look yet at one of Milky Way's most extreme environments
Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits ...
It gave us the best map of the Milky Way. Now the Gaia spacecraft is orbiting into retirement
Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...
James Webb Space Telescope Captures Stunning 4K View Of Milky Way's Heart
The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...
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Insight from one of Milky Way's most extreme environments
In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.
A Scientist Says Humans Might Be Trapped in a Gigantic Black Hole. It Isn’t Crazy.
Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can ...
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Webb Telescope Reveals Milky Way's Extreme Zone
Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way Galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits ...
NASA’s Webb Telescope Catches First-Ever Death of a Planet — But It Didn’t Happen the Way Scientists Thought
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed that the first star believed to have swallowed a planet did not expand to ...
NASA James Webb captures first-ever view of a dying planet swallowed by its sun
The star ZTF SLRN-2020 was believed by astronomers to have swollen up and engulfed a planet. Recent studies, however, suggest ...
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Star-Crossed Destiny: The Inevitable Supernova of White Dwarfs
Astronomers discovered two massive white dwarf stars in a binary system destined to trigger a rare quadruple detonation. This will occur about 22.6 billion years from now. Their eventual supernova ...