Representative image from Canva The young universe may have become chemically enriched far earlier than astronomers…
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In 2013, astronomers discovered two rings around 250-km-wide Chariklo; nine years later, James Webb found the inner ring more opaque and the outer ring weaker
Credit: L. Maquet, Observatoire de Paris In 2013, astronomers discovered two narrow rings around Chariklo, a…
NASA’s Webb telescope captured the Black Eye Galaxy in unprecedented detail; its opposing gas streams reveal a violent cosmic past
At first glance, Messier 64 looks like a classic spiral galaxy. Its bright centre is wrapped…
A former Australian miner spotted a ripple on Saturn from his backyard in 2024; two years later, he co-authored a world-first discovery of a 10-sided atmospheric wave
Recent Hubble images of Saturn reveal a 10-sided atmospheric wave at its south pole, stretching across…
Hubble images revealed a giant 10-sided wave around Saturn’s south pole; one side stretches over 10,000 miles and the pattern has grown clearer since 2023
NASA’s Hubble captures Saturn’s mysterious 10-sided atmospheric wave at its south pole (Image: X/ @NASAHubble) Saturn…
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: From strange worlds to rare planets: Nasa’s Roman Telescope begins its cosmic hunt
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the space observatory Roman Telescope lifts off from launch complex…
Since Webb discovered mysterious “little red dots” in 2022, astronomers have struggled to explain them; a galaxy seen 3.3 billion years after the Big Bang may finally reveal their hidden evolution
Photo credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Pierluigi Rinaldi (Steward Observatory); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Since…
Hyderabad-born MIT astronomer Rohan Naidu helps uncover a possible ‘black hole star’ from the early universe
For billions of years, the universe has hidden its strangest secrets in faint, ancient light. Now,…
Meet Rohan Naidu, the MIT astronomer who left engineering at 18; now he is helping uncover how the Universe’s earliest black holes formed
Image(s): Left/Department of Physics, MIT/Right/MoM-BH*-1 A Hyderabad-born astronomer who left engineering school at 18 and counts…
James Webb’s ‘little red dots’ may be 100,000-sun monster stars; their collapse could have seeded the universe’s first giant black holes
‘Little red dots’ may be pulsating monster stars that created early-universe black holes, study finds Mysterious,…