Webb Discovers Actively Forming Low-Mass Galaxy in Early Universe
Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, the newly-discovered galaxy existed around 600 million years after the Big Bang and included a least 10 star clusters. The Firefly Sparkle galaxy remains in the…
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TESS Discovers Record-Breaking Triply-Eclipsing Triple Star
TIC 290061484 consists of a set of stars orbiting each other every 1.8 days, and a 3rd star that circles around the set in simply 25 days. The discovery smashes…
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Webb Discovers Six Free-Floating Exoplanets in NGC 1333
Utilizing the Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument on the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have actually found 6 brand-new free-floating planetary-mass members of NGC 1333 with approximated…
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