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3D rendering of a stellar nebula showing one very bright white star with a faint blue and purple cloud around it, with numerous other yellower stars filling the rest of the image, on a black background

Finding Cannibalized Stars

by Georgia State University

Astronomers using Georgia State’s CHARA Array have detected the faint light of stellar corpses beside predator stars

Computer image of Venus in space

Mysterious Missing Component in the Clouds of Venus Revealed

by University of Cambridge

Image of Saturns moon, Titan

Titan’s ‘Magic Islands’ Likely Honeycombed Hydrocarbon Icebergs

by American Geophysical Union

Neutron star in space

Further Evidence for Quark-Matter Cores in Massive Neutron Stars

by University of Helsinki

Analysis places the likelihood of massive neutron stars hiding cores of deconfined quark matter around 85 percent

This image of Uranus from NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope exquisitely captures Uranus’s seasonal north polar cap and dim inner and outer rings.

NASA’s Webb Rings in Holidays with Ringed Planet Uranus

by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

The newer images show the seasonal north polar cap in much greater detail than previous images

Galaxies forming in a nebula

Stellar Winds Regulate Growth of Galaxies

Team shows that galactic winds limit the growth of galaxies that are more than 7 billion years old

Blue stars and nebula in space

New Red Galaxies Turn Out to Be Already Known Blue Galaxies

by National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Extremely red objects have been shown to be similar to blue-excess dust obscured galaxies

Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex image

NASA’s Webb Identifies Tiniest Free-Floating Brown Dwarf

by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Researchers chose to study the IC 348 star cluster located 1,000 light-years away

Image of space

Ancient Stars Made Extraordinarily Heavy Elements

by North Carolina State University

New research gives guidance about how to think about models and fission

A purple nebula in space

New Dark Matter Theory Explains Two Puzzles in Astrophysics

by University of California - Riverside

Dark matter may be more vibrant than previously thought, UC Riverside study reports

Digital image of Saturns moon Enceladus

Can Signs of Life Be Detected from Saturn’s Frigid Moon?

by University of California - San Diego

Enceladus’ ice plumes may hold the building blocks of life

Images of distant galaxies

Ghostlike Dusty Galaxy Reappears in James Webb Space Telescope Image

by University of Texas at Austin

Researchers detect a galaxy that's busy forming new stars, but is hard to see

Computer image of exoplanets in space

Scientists Discover Rare 6-Planet System That Moves in Strange Synchrony

by University of Chicago

Study led by UChicago astronomer may tell us about how planets form