Protoplanetary disks are ring of stellar material that orbit young stars, early in their life cycle. Within this gas, matter will eventually accrete to form the planets that will make up the star’s own system.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the first detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-39b, making a breakthrough in the research of these alien worlds.
One a post a couple weeks back I had someone ask about weighting the Ha channel with a multiplier since I mentioned that I did that in processing the image I posted, so here is a quick post showing how to do it in APP and
Deconvolution is one of PixInsight’s most powerful programs, but it is also one that takes some time to understand how to effectively use it, especially for beginners to astro image processing.
The red giant star Betelgeuse has recently been observed by astronomers slowly repairing the damage caused from the infamous ‘great dimming’ event in 2019.