Space scientist Maggie Aderin talks telescopes, neurodiversity and being underestimated with Rowan Hooper on the New Scientist podcast, as her memoir Starchild comes out ...
An international team of astronomers has employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a complex planetary nebula known as NGC 6302. The observations, detailed in a paper published Feb. 25 ...
Never-before-seen temperature and ion density measurements reveal that the effect of Jupiter's moons on its aurora are more complicated than scientists thought.
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For the first time, astronomers have discovered dry ice (carbon dioxide ice) in a planetary nebula, shedding new light on the ...
The death of a star is usually thought to be a violent and hostile ...
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What makes this discovery even more interesting is that ices are not known to survive in planetary nebulae.