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Scientists have discovered a few thousand planetary nebulas in the Milky Way. Those include the Ring Nebula, aka NGC 6720 and Messier 57. With Webb, the researchers could see a compact dust cloud ...
Saturn’s rings are one of the most iconic features in our solar system, captivating astronomers and stargazers for centuries.
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Why does Saturn have rings?
Neptune is curious about why Saturn has rings and turns to Uranus for answers, leading to a touch of jealousy.
For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.
Astronomers have found a rare form of methanol, a type of alcohol, in a planet-forming disk, providing a critical step in understanding how life beyond Earth may form. This result reveals vital ...
It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets.
The astronomers discovered the planet when searching through more than 91,000 low-mass red dwarfs observed by NASA's TESS ...
A debris disk, or a protoplanetary disk, surrounds a young star and is filled with ice water, similar to what we have in the ...