'1,400 light-years away': NASA’s James Webb Telescope discovers mysterious free-floating objects in space
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a population of free-floating brown dwarfs in the Flame Nebula, a star-forming region around 1,400 light-years from Earth. Some of these objects ...
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How can they tell how far away stars are? - Ask Your Science Teacher
Answer: For near stars, astronomers use a method called parallax. During Earth’s orbit, near stars seem to shift their position against the farther stars. This is called parallax shift. By ...
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NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope Launches To Map The Universe In Infrared
NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, has successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, setting off on a ...
Dying Star Devours Planet: X-Ray Clues Unveil Cosmic Catastrophe
For over 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf. Now, they may ...
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4 rocky exoplanets found around Barnard's Star, one of the sun's nearest neighbors
The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...