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NASA’s James Webb telescope captured its first direct image of a distant gas giant, revealing groundbreaking insights into ...
Our solar system is a pretty wild place, full of amazing stuff. From the giant Sun to the tiny rocks floating around, there’s ...
The sun is the star at the center of our solar system.It's the largest, brightest and most massive object in the solar system, and it provides the light and heat that life on Earth depends ...
Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez, from the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it's an ...
Jupiter is our solar system's biggest planet by far. It used to be twice as large: Study A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow ...
Massive glow-in-the-dark cloud of star-forming gas found hiding near solar system. Despite being 3,400 times the mass of the sun and just 300 light-years away, the hydrogen cloud had gone ...
This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids – came into being. Telescopes can see young solar systems being born.