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‘The most significant JWST finding to date’: James Webb spots — then loses — a giant planet orbiting in the habitable zone of our closest sun-like star Space Debris

‘The most significant JWST finding to date’: James Webb spots — then loses — a giant planet orbiting in the habitable zone of our closest sun-like star

Artist"s conception of a suspected Saturn-size planet near Alpha Centauri A, a sun-like star roughly four light-years from Earth. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Robert L. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC)) There might be a huge planet lurking near one of the closest stars to Earth. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)…
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August 8, 2025
Hubble Captures a Tarantula Space Debris

Hubble Captures a Tarantula

NASA Hubble Mission Team Goddard Space Flight Center Aug 08, 2025 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called the Tarantula Nebula. Most of the nebulae Hubble images are in our galaxy, but this nebula is in the Large Magellanic…
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August 8, 2025
Newborn Star’s Jet Ignites a Cosmic Blast. Then Gets Slammed by Its Shockwave Space Debris

Newborn Star’s Jet Ignites a Cosmic Blast. Then Gets Slammed by Its Shockwave

Artist’s impression of a protoplanetary disk distorted by a shock front created by an expanding bubble. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), M. Aizawa et al.) Astronomers have uncovered a dramatic space event where a baby star’s own actions came back to strike it. A high-speed jet fired from the young star appears…
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August 8, 2025