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James Webb Space Telescope captures amazing 4K views of cosmic crib

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) has captured stunning views of Herbig Haro object 797 (HH 797) ...
Nanowerk

Mysterious dark object in space

Overlay of the infrared emission (black and white) with the radio emission (colour). The dark, low-mass object is located at ...

Hubble spies stellar blast setting clouds ablaze

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a jet of gas from a forming star shooting across the dark expanse. The ...

As puzzling as a platypus: The JWST finds some hard to categorize objects

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

‘Cloud-9’ is a newly discovered celestial object. It could help solve a cosmic mystery

A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.
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Don’t miss this rare planetary alignment on New Year’s Eve, see where to look

As fireworks erupt across skylines on December 31, 2025, the real spectacle will unfold quietly overhead. A nearly full Moon, flanked by bright planets and iconic constellations, will offer stargazers ...
Carnegie Institution for Science

Cool, Luminous, and Highly Variable Stars in the Magellanic Clouds from ASAS-SN: Implications for Thorne-Zytkow Objects and Super-asymptotic Giant Branch Stars

O'Grady, Anna J. G.; Drout, Maria R.; Shappee, B. J.; Bauer, Evan B.; Fuller, Jim; Kochanek, C. S.; Jayasinghe, T.; Gaensler, B. M.; Stanek, K. Z.; Holoien, Thomas W ...
Frontiers

Luminosity thresholds in projection mapping under environmental lighting

Projection mapping alters the visual appearance of objects by projecting images onto their surfaces. Traditionally, its application has been limited to dark environments because the contrast of the ...