The first-ever baby pictures of a solar system that’s not our own are finally here—and they’re beautiful—and as adorable as space entities can get. In a paper published today in Nature, astronomers presented HOPS-315: a Sun-like protostar cooking up a brew of hot minerals and silicon monoxide gas, located about 1,300 light-years away from Earth. […]
Latest Webb Image Is Straight Out of Star Trek
The Webb Space Telescope is charged with imaging the cosmos at infrared and near-infrared wavelengths, so it should come as no surprise when it captures a familiar object in an entirely new way. Nevertheless, we’re impressed. Webb imaged an edge-on protoplanetary disk with unerring precision, capturing the object’s wind and jets, according to an ESA […]