A supernova remnant, Cassiopeia A (Cas A), resulting from a stellar explosion approximately 11,000 years ago, is being studied using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). JWST observations focus on a ...

A recent study combining observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and detailed analysis published in The Astrophysical Journal has provided compelling evidence that the Earth-sized ...

The supermassive black hole is that first one that astronomers ever photographed. For more than a century, astronomers have marveled at the brilliant jet of matter blasting from the heart of the giant ...

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New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion-powered suns, but enormous “supermassive dark stars” powered by dark ...

For decades, astronomers have searched the skies for a missing population of doomed stars — the massive red supergiants that theory predicts should end their lives in powerful stellar explosions, but ...