“James Webb Telescope: Are We Alone?” In The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper offers an inside look at the most powerful telescope ever built. The show will premiere on Sunday, June 16 at 8pm ET/PT on CNN. A collision between giant asteroids may have occurred in a neighboring star system called Beta Pictoris in recent… Read More »
“James Webb Telescope: Are We Alone?” In The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper offers an inside look at the most powerful telescope ever built. The show will premiere on Sunday, June 16 at 8pm ET/PT on CNN. A collision between giant asteroids may have occurred in a neighboring star system called Beta Pictoris in recent… Read More »
Three is definitely not a crowd for planets around a distant baby star. Astronomers had already discovered two planets forming in the disk, or protoplanetary disk, of gas and dust around the baby star PDS 70. Now, astronomers with the MIRI Mid-Infrared Disc Survey (MINDS) Project using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have seen… Read More »
The cows at Double F Farms dig in for a hearty meal, but cattle feed in Alberta is becoming harder to find at a good price given the drought affecting the province. It even forced some operators to sell their herds. (doubleffarms.ca – image credit) An indoor vertical farming company in Alberta is turning to… Read More »
Late last year astronomers discovered a fascinating star system only 100 light years away from us. Neptune’s six subplanets orbit very close to their host star in mathematically perfect orbits, attracting the attention of scientists searching for alien technology or technosignatures, which they claim would provide convincing evidence of advanced life beyond them. Soil. To… Read More »
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has seen Beta Pictoris like never before, capturing a never-before-seen structure that gives the young planetary system a dusty cat tail. Located 63 light-years away from us, Beta Pictoris is a star about twice the size of the Sun and eight times brighter; It is surrounded by a disk… Read More »
Astronomers have discovered not one but two planetary systems with sun-like stars at their hearts. Both of these systems contain mini-Neptune planets, and one hosts a massive “super-Jupiter” world, each many times larger than Earth. Studying the realms can lead to a better understanding of how planets form and evolve around sun-like stars (also known… Read More »
Astronomers have discovered an unusual star system just 100 light-years away from us, where six planets are clustered extremely close to their host star, so close in fact that their entire orbits fit within the distance between them. Mercury and our sun. Surprisingly, unlike our own solar system, this newly discovered slice of the cosmos… Read More »
Astronomers have discovered the first example of a rotating disk of material feeding a young star in a galaxy outside the Milky Way. The disk is nearly identical to those found around baby stars in the Milky Way and shows that stars and planets form in other galaxies just as they do in our own.… Read More »