Probably the smallest stars ever found NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Kevin Luhman (PSU), Catarina Alves de Oliveira (ESA) The border between what’s a star and what’s a planet is blurry, and new findings from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it even much less clear. These objects seem like brown dwarfs, generally known…
Making stars is a messy enterprise. Though the method takes far longer than any human life span, we’ve sufficiently studied its numerous phases in stellar nurseries scattered round our galaxy to realize a good total grasp of the way it works. It begins, basically, with an enormous swirling cloud of fuel and cosmic mud—like the…
Astronomers have noticed indicators of an prolonged disk of mud and gasoline, whirling in orbit round a distant star. There’s nothing uncommon about this. It is a regular stage within the growth of a star and its planetary system. What makes this discover so spectacular is that it is the first ever seen round a…
Producing life out of an natural soup is an advanced enterprise. You want a complete bunch of substances, all collectively in the identical place, in the appropriate situations. Whereas the exact situations is perhaps remains to be a matter of debate, we have now a good thought of which objects on the periodic desk are…
November 22, 2023 3 min learn Scientists nonetheless can’t clarify what’s inflicting unusually vibrant explosions in house—however a stunning commentary would possibly supply clues By Nature magazine & Jonathan O’Callaghan An artist’s impression of an LFBOT explosion. An explosion in house nicknamed the Tasmanian satan has confused astronomers by flashing at peak brightness greater than…
