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Webb visits a stellar nursery

An in-depth look at the largest star-forming region on the Milky Way As mentioned in previous articles, clouds of gas and dust, nebulae, are the…

Artist’s impression of a white dwarf and debris disc
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A feast without famine

A white dwarf “eats” a Pluto-like planet Even though it’s been in Earth orbit for over 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is still…

An artist's impression of Japan’s Hayabusa2 space mission touching down on the surface of the asteroid 1998 KY26.
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Cruising with an asteroid

Hayabusa2 – to land or not to land? When the Sun’s family formed 4½ billion years ago, there was a lot of extra material remaining….

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”Mountain” to the stars

The Webb Space Telescope peers at hotbed of massive star birth What do a kind of “crustacean,” an “arachnid” (both arthropods), and the James Webb…