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Astronomy, cosmology, stars, planets, black holes and the observatories revealing how the cosmos works.


Webb has confirmed a galaxy, MoM-z14, whose light left just 280 million years after the…

In 2004, a magnetar on the far side of the Milky Way unleashed a giant flare so intense…

Webb found a planet stretched into a lemon shape around a pulsar, with an atmosphere of…

The closest star to our Sun, a small red dwarf named Proxima Centauri, is approximately…

The Cosmic Microwave Background, the faint afterglow of the Big Bang detectable across…

For decades, we did not know whether Earth-like worlds were cosmic accidents

A massive star appears to have exploded twice

In February 2022, a geomagnetic storm so minor it barely rated a mention thickened the…

During the 1859 solar storm, telegraph operators disconnected their batteries entirely

When JWST looked at XLSSC 122, a galaxy cluster 10.4 billion light-years away, it…
