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'Ridiculously smooth': James Webb telescope spies unusual pancake-like disk around nearby star Vega — and scientists can't explain it
The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...
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The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made About Neptune
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...
Legendary Star’s Smooth Disk Mystifies Astronomers, Challenges Planet Formation Theories
Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...
The Blue Marvel: NASA’s Voyager 2 captured this image of Neptune in the summer of 1989 as it became the first spacecraft to fly by the planet. Neptune's blue color comes from ...
Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.
'Hand of God': The 'Hand of God' is actually a cloud of material ejected from a star that exploded. NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has image…
From the mysterious 'smiling face' to the grand 'Pillars of creation', check out these 7 amazing photos of our universe ...
Webb Telescope Sees Perfect Circle Around Vega, Leaving Astronomers Puzzled
Vega, one of the brightest, most famous and most important stars in the night sky, has no evidence of giant planets around it ...
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The 30 Best James Webb Space Telescope Images So Far
The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch ... and its orbit takes it three times as far from its star as Neptune is from the sun. That helped scientists pick out the planet in the star's ...
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'Vega continues to be unusual:' Lack of planets around young star puzzles astronomers
A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...
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James Webb Space Telescope Spots Cosmic Structure Eerily Similar to a Scene From Sagan’s ‘Contact’
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have observed a massive disk surrounding the star Vega in unprecedented new ...
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Webb telescope finds hot young star Vega is actually quite lonely
Then in 2021, other researchers saw what they believed was perhaps a signal of a Neptune or Jupiter-like ... when the ultra-sensitive James Webb Space Telescope launches into space, they'll ...