NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has completed another milestone in astrophysics, this time helping to measure the temperature of TRAPPIST-1 b, a rocky exoplanet.
Two groups of astronomers have investigated the results of the collision involving the double asteroid system of dimorphous and didymos, which were the targets of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART).
A team of astronomers led by Valentina Missaglia, a postdoctoral astrophysicist at the University of Turin have discovered a distant lone galaxy in a region where we expect to observe at least a dozen.
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