A few years back, in the fictional town of Patience, Colorado, an extraterrestrial visitor made landfall on our planet. The title character of SYFY's Resident Alien (streaming now on Peacock!) takes ...
An image that went viral in August 2023 genuinely depicted a "question mark" formation in space. The viral photograph was a zoomed-in, cropped version of an image taken by a special camera on NASA's ...
Late last month NASA and ESA released a swirling infrared vista capturing an evolutionary snapshot of the formation of two nascent stars, known collectively as Herbig-Haro 46/47. As reported by Space ...
The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a stunning new image of what scientists call a pair of actively forming stars. But eagle-eyed viewers were quick to seize on an even tinier — and to ...
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The James Webb Space Telescope is an essential addition to NASA’s abundance of resources, as it allows astronomers to capture photographic evidence in its highest quality. The telescope was launched ...
The young stars are buried deeply, appearing as an orange-white splotch in the image, surrounded by a disk of gas and dust that continues to add to their mass. A closer look at the image reveals that ...
The red galaxy interacting with a spiral galaxy was magnified and distorted in an unusual way, which NASA said involved a "rare alignment between the galaxies, the lens, and the observer," known as a ...
Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...
Close scrutiny of a recent image from the Webb Space Telescope revealed some questionable punctuation. By Dennis Overbye The astronomers will tell you it is just an optical illusion, a pair of ...
The viral photograph was a zoomed-in, cropped version of an image taken by a special camera on NASA's Webb Space Telescope. That image was a composite of multiple exposures. The viral photograph was ...