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Why will our Sun expel its outer layers as it dies?
Why will our Sun expel its outer layers as it dies? Daniel StanyerAugusta, Kansas First, let's discriminate between expansion ...
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JWST’s Infrared Vision Unveils the Turbulent Birthplaces of Stars in the Cat’s Paw Nebula
How does a star form from the cold, turbulent gloom of a molecular cloud? Three years have already passed since the James Webb Space Telescope has been revealing how, most recently by removing the ...
Dark matter could create dark dwarfs at the center of the Milky Way
Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...
Webb telescope discovers stars forming in 'toe beans' of Cat's Paw Nebula
The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...
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James Webb Space Telescope celebrates 3 years of science with dazzling 'toe beans' image of Cat's Paw Nebula
The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of ...
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What is space and what’s floating about in it?
We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.
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How your smartphone is powered by debris from a nova star explosion
The smoking gun of the creation of lithium in explosions on white dwarf stars may have been found, in a spike of gamma rays ...
When The Sun Dies: What It Means For Earth
Such changes would make it difficult for life as we know it to survive on Earth. The increased heat and radiation would ...