Just in time for Independence Day, NASA has released a stunning image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) showing incredible red, white, and blue fireworks exploding across the cosmos. As the United States celebrates its birthday, that cosmic “rocket’s red glow” is actually the violent explosion of a newborn star at the heart of… Read More »
Astronomers have obtained new information about the formation of planets around twin stars orbiting each other. Although we are familiar with planets orbiting a single central star (similar to the arrangement of our solar system), more than 50% of the stars in the universe are found in binary systems, meaning they have a companion star.… Read More »
Astronomers have discovered that a scorching hot planet twice the size of Jupiter is orbiting in a death spiral that will drag it towards its parent star. Cosmically speaking, a collision is expected to occur relatively soon. Researchers have been predicting for some time that this planet, called WASP-12b, would eventually dive towards its star,… Read More »