For more than a quarter century, unidentified chemical signatures from a white dwarf star have laid dormant in the archive of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, until diligent sleuthing by a young astronomer revealed something extraordinary: high amounts of the element niobium, and other unusual chemical abundances, indicating a potential second-generation planet orbiting the white dwarf. While a handful of…
An international team led by the University of Duisburg-Essen has developed a high-resolution 3D model demonstrating how uneven stellar nurseries cast shadows that alter local chemistry and impact infrared signals detected by Webb.
An international research team participating in the ALMA COMPASS Large program has detected a rare form of methanol in deep space for the first time, advancing interstellar chemistry.
Astronomers at Caltech and NASA JPL are utilizing SPHEREx data to decode the atmospheric mysteries of brown dwarfs. The study reveals critical gaps in current stellar and planetary evolution models.
Astronomers detected an unusual triangular light curve about 300 light-years away. While searching for Black Widow binaries, they instead found an M dwarf slowly consuming its companion brown dwarf.
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