Tag: space telescope
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Cosmic Clouds in N11: Hubble’s Oct 7, 2025 Photo of the Day
Hubble’s Oct 7, 2025 Photo of the Day: A Glimpse into Stellar Nurseries Cosmic clouds and newborn stars take center stage in the latest Hubble Space Telescope release, celebrating the agency’s ongoing mission to unveil the hidden beauty of our galactic neighborhood. The “Hubble Photo of the Day” for October 7, 2025, captures a vivid…
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Blazing Auroras on a Sunless World: JWST Sheds Light on SIMP-0136
Introduction: A Sunless World that Dares to Shine In a striking demonstration of how far observational astronomy has come, the James Webb Space Telescope has turned its gaze toward a sunless world known as SIMP-0136. This rogue brown dwarf, free-floating through the galaxy about 20 light-years away in the Pisces constellation, is not bound to…
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Phosphine on a brown dwarf reshapes the life-sign biosignature debate
Phosphine on a brown dwarf: a surprising detection NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected phosphine in the atmosphere of Wolf 1130C, a brown dwarf often described as a “failed star.” The discovery, published in Science, challenges the idea that phosphine is a universal sign of life. Brown dwarfs sit between planets and stars:…
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JWST Captures Auroras on a Rogue World SIMP-0136
JWST Delivers a New View of SIMP-0136 The James Webb Space Telescope has offered astronomers a rare look at SIMP-0136, a rogue world that drifts through interstellar space without a parent star. About 20 light-years away, this object is roughly 200 million years old and sits in a curious middle ground between a brown dwarf…
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Rogue Planet Auroras Bake a Bizarre World, JWST Finds
Rogue Planet Auroras: A New Kind of Heat Source A recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics reports a striking finding: a rogue planet wandering the galaxy—unbound to any star—exhibits auroral emissions so intense they effectively bake parts of its atmosphere. The discovery comes from observations made with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and…
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Webb Telescope Discovers Possible Atmosphere on Trappist-1e
Introduction Recent discoveries by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have sparked excitement in the scientific community, as they suggest that Trappist-1e, an exoplanet located 41 light-years from Earth, may possess an atmosphere. This planet orbits within the “habitable zone”—the region around a star where conditions might allow liquid water to exist on its surface.…