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This artist’s impression is based on the aftermath of a supernova explosion, which resulted in a compact object. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada

Exotic Objects, Science

Scientists find a direct link from the death of massive stars to black holes and neutron stars

Voyager’s views of Jupiter’s colorful cloud tops reminded many people of an impressionist painter’s canvas. Fine details in and around the Great Red Spot changed significantly in the four months between the Voyager 1 flyby and Voyager 2 (pictured). Credit: NASA/JPL.

Robotic Spaceflight, Science, Solar System, Space Exploration

Jets detected around Jupiter using data from 1979’s Voyager 2 mission

Enceladus, in a mosaic taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Alien Life, Science

New clues emerge toward possible life on Enceladus

Astronomers capture a green ghost in our atmosphere

An artist’s rendering of the warm exoplanet WASP-80 b whose color may appear bluish to human eyes due to the lack of high-altitude clouds and the presence of atmospheric methane identified by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, similar to the planets Uranus and Neptune in our own solar system. Image credit: NASA.

Exoplanets, Science

JWST detects methane in atmosphere of scorching hot WASP-80 b

An artist’s impression of the disc and jet in the young star system HH 1177. Credit: The European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Exoplanets, Science, Stars

Astronomers discover disk around star in another galaxy for the 1st time ever

Light from 23 distant galaxies, identified with red rectangles in the Hubble Space Telescope image at the top, were combined to capture incredibly faint emission from eight different elements, which are labelled in the JWST spectrum at the bottom. Although scientists regularly find these elements on Earth, astronomers rarely, if ever, observe many of them in distant galaxies. Credit: Aaron M. Geller, Northwestern, CIERA + IT-RCDS

Galaxies, Science

JWST uncovers a surprising amount of nickel in adolescent galaxies

An artistic impression of WASP-107b and its parent star. Illustration: LUCA School of Arts, Belgium/ Klaas Verpoest (visuals), Johan Van Looveren (typography). Science: Achrène Dyrek (CEA and Université Paris Cité, France), Michiel Min (SRON, the Netherlands), Leen Decin (KU Leuven, Belgium) / European MIRI EXO GTO team / ESA / NASA

Exoplanets, Science

WASP-107b, a weird exoplanet where it rains sand

Artist’s impression of the dwarf planet Eris. Credit: ESO/L.Calçada and Nick Risinger

A moon helps to uncover strange solar system body Eris

An artistic impression of a gamma-ray burst from a galaxy almost two billion light-years away. Credit: ESA/ATG Europe; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Exotic Objects, Science

Massive gamma-ray burst reached Earth’s ionosphere

The Euclid image of the Horsehead Nebula, an iconic target for backyard astrophotographers and space telescopes alike. Credit: ESA.

Cosmology, Galaxies, Science, Stars

Euclid telescope releases first awe-inspiring images in dark universe hunt

Theia slams into a young Earth in this artist's conception. Credit: Hernan Canellas/ASU

Science, Solar System

Theia slammed into Earth, left marks and then formed the Moon, study suggests