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James Webb Telescope Uncovers First Possible Brown Dwarfs Beyond Milky Way
The James Webb Space Telescope has possibly identified brown dwarfs beyond the Milky Way for the first time, offering new insights into how stars formed in the early universe. Located in the star cluster NGC 602 within the Small Magellanic Cloud, these “failed stars” may help explain star formation under early cosmic conditions. This discovery,...
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Astronomers Successfully Detect Brown Dwarfs in a Distant Star Cluster
For the first time, astronomers have detected brown dwarfs outside the Milky Way in the star cluster NGC 602, situated approximately 200,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Utilising the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the team sought young brown dwarf candidates in an environment that resembles the early universe, with limited h...
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James Webb Telescope Reveals Massive Westerlund 1 Super Star Cluster Hidden in Milky Way’s Dust
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled Westerlund 1, the Milky Way’s largest super star cluster, located 12,000 light-years away in the constellation Ara. This massive cluster, with stars up to 2,000 times larger than the Sun, has a total mass between 50,000 to 100,000 times that of the Sun. Previously hidden by cosmic dust, Westerlun...
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NASA Citizen Scientists Discover Mysterious Object Moving out of Milky Way at an Extremely High Speed
On August 15, 2024, NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project, featuring the contributions of dedicated citizen scientists, made a groundbreaking discovery: an object moving at an astonishing speed of 1 million miles per hour, which will soon escape the gravitational pull of the Milky Way. This hypervelocity object, catalogued as CWISE J124909.08+...
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A Galactic 'Comet' Terzan 5 Just Illuminated A 100-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery
When my colleagues and I set to work on a century-old cosmic mystery, we found an unexpected celestial laboratory in Terzan 5, a dense star cluster currently plunging through our galaxy at breakneck speed.
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Rare Mid-Sized Black Hole Spotted At Center Of Swallowed Galaxy: Study
Astronomers have scrutinized a cluster of stars that is the apparent remnant core of a relatively small galaxy that was swallowed by the sprawling Milky Way 8 to 10 billion years ago. What lurks at the center of this cluster has them excited.
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Star Clusters Formed 460 Million Years After Big Bang Discovered By James Webb Telescope
"This is the first discovery of star clusters in an infant galaxy less than 500 million years after the Big Bang," ESA said in a statement.
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Landmark Data: The Euclid Telescope Begins Mapping the Dark Matter
The Euclid space telescope, launched by the European Space Agency, is making significant strides in mapping dark matter and dark energy. Recent images reveal stunning celestial objects, including galaxy clusters like Abell 2390 and star nurseries lik
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NASA's Hubble Captures 5-Million-Year-Old Star Cluster. See Stunning Pic
The image, described by NASA as a "Hubble Classic view," depicts a mesmerising scene where bright-white, bluish, and orange stars twinkle amidst dark dust patches, hinting at regions of dense gas and potential star formation.
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NASA Shares Stunning Image Of ''Celestial Festival Of Lights'' Captured By Hubble
The space agency shared an image of a globular cluster captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and called it a ''celestial festival of lights.''
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James Webb Telescope Finds Evidence Of ''Celestial Monster'' Stars The Size of 10,000 Suns
These ''celestial monsters'' are 5000 to 10000 times more massive and five times hotter at their centre than the Sun.
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NASA's Hubble Telescope Spots Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Leaving Behind Trail of Newborn Stars
A supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a 2,00,000-light-year-long condensed trail of newborn stars, twice the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy, in its wake, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), US. Captured accidentally by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the black hole was se...
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NASA's James Webb Telescope Discovers Star Formation In Dusty Ribbons Of A Cluster
NASA states that as stars form, they collect gas and dust from the surrounding molecular cloud, "which appears as ribbons in Webb imagery."
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"Star Cluster Shaped Like Human Skull": NASA Shares Spooky Shot Of Rosette Nebula
This star-studded picture initially seems like a skull, but it's actually a portion of the Rosette Nebula, so named because of the way its stars are arranged in a rose pattern.
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Scientists Discover "Poor Old Heart" Of The Milky Way Galaxy
Scientists have found a cluster of 18,000 stars that are from the primordial universe, shortly after the Big Bang took place.
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James Webb Telescope Uncovers First Possible Brown Dwarfs Beyond Milky Way
The James Webb Space Telescope has possibly identified brown dwarfs beyond the Milky Way for the first time, offering new insights into how stars formed in the early universe. Located in the star cluster NGC 602 within the Small Magellanic Cloud, these “failed stars” may help explain star formation under early cosmic conditions. This discovery,...
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Astronomers Successfully Detect Brown Dwarfs in a Distant Star Cluster
For the first time, astronomers have detected brown dwarfs outside the Milky Way in the star cluster NGC 602, situated approximately 200,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Utilising the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the team sought young brown dwarf candidates in an environment that resembles the early universe, with limited h...
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James Webb Telescope Reveals Massive Westerlund 1 Super Star Cluster Hidden in Milky Way’s Dust
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled Westerlund 1, the Milky Way’s largest super star cluster, located 12,000 light-years away in the constellation Ara. This massive cluster, with stars up to 2,000 times larger than the Sun, has a total mass between 50,000 to 100,000 times that of the Sun. Previously hidden by cosmic dust, Westerlun...
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NASA Citizen Scientists Discover Mysterious Object Moving out of Milky Way at an Extremely High Speed
On August 15, 2024, NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project, featuring the contributions of dedicated citizen scientists, made a groundbreaking discovery: an object moving at an astonishing speed of 1 million miles per hour, which will soon escape the gravitational pull of the Milky Way. This hypervelocity object, catalogued as CWISE J124909.08+...
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A Galactic 'Comet' Terzan 5 Just Illuminated A 100-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery
When my colleagues and I set to work on a century-old cosmic mystery, we found an unexpected celestial laboratory in Terzan 5, a dense star cluster currently plunging through our galaxy at breakneck speed.
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Rare Mid-Sized Black Hole Spotted At Center Of Swallowed Galaxy: Study
Astronomers have scrutinized a cluster of stars that is the apparent remnant core of a relatively small galaxy that was swallowed by the sprawling Milky Way 8 to 10 billion years ago. What lurks at the center of this cluster has them excited.
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Star Clusters Formed 460 Million Years After Big Bang Discovered By James Webb Telescope
"This is the first discovery of star clusters in an infant galaxy less than 500 million years after the Big Bang," ESA said in a statement.
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Landmark Data: The Euclid Telescope Begins Mapping the Dark Matter
The Euclid space telescope, launched by the European Space Agency, is making significant strides in mapping dark matter and dark energy. Recent images reveal stunning celestial objects, including galaxy clusters like Abell 2390 and star nurseries lik
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NASA's Hubble Captures 5-Million-Year-Old Star Cluster. See Stunning Pic
The image, described by NASA as a "Hubble Classic view," depicts a mesmerising scene where bright-white, bluish, and orange stars twinkle amidst dark dust patches, hinting at regions of dense gas and potential star formation.
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NASA Shares Stunning Image Of ''Celestial Festival Of Lights'' Captured By Hubble
The space agency shared an image of a globular cluster captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and called it a ''celestial festival of lights.''
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James Webb Telescope Finds Evidence Of ''Celestial Monster'' Stars The Size of 10,000 Suns
These ''celestial monsters'' are 5000 to 10000 times more massive and five times hotter at their centre than the Sun.
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NASA's Hubble Telescope Spots Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Leaving Behind Trail of Newborn Stars
A supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a 2,00,000-light-year-long condensed trail of newborn stars, twice the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy, in its wake, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), US. Captured accidentally by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the black hole was se...
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NASA's James Webb Telescope Discovers Star Formation In Dusty Ribbons Of A Cluster
NASA states that as stars form, they collect gas and dust from the surrounding molecular cloud, "which appears as ribbons in Webb imagery."
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"Star Cluster Shaped Like Human Skull": NASA Shares Spooky Shot Of Rosette Nebula
This star-studded picture initially seems like a skull, but it's actually a portion of the Rosette Nebula, so named because of the way its stars are arranged in a rose pattern.
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Scientists Discover "Poor Old Heart" Of The Milky Way Galaxy
Scientists have found a cluster of 18,000 stars that are from the primordial universe, shortly after the Big Bang took place.
