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Astronomers See Planet Formation ‘Time Zero’ in an Alien Solar System
Peering through a cosmic keyhole at distant baby star, astronomers may have opened a new window on the deep past of our own solar system. Using combined observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile,
Astronomers Witness an Alien Solar System’s Birth for the First Time
Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For now, however, it’s shrouded by a vast and obscuring envelope of inflowing material—baby food for a hungry stellar newborn.
Birth of a solar system caught ‘on camera’ for first time
The researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to probe the chemical make-up of material around the star, and found the first-ever traces of warm silicon monoxide (SiO) in such a disk. They also noticed that the silicate minerals they detected were rich in SiO, and that the midsection of the star’s disk was ultra-hot.
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Astronomers discover giant alien planet 35 times more massive than Earth hiding in a known star systemThe newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...
Filmmaker Ridley Scott changed the entire landscapes of both sci-fi and horror in 1979 when he released Alien into the world. Nearly 50 years later, many audiences still consider that debut entry the ...
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Astronomer Says the Object Approaching Us From Beyond the Solar System Is Not What We ThinkHarvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests that if interstellar object 3I/ATLAS isn't a comet, nor an asteroid, it may have been ...
On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope, located in northern Chile, ...
Comet or asteroid heading for the Sun is only the third time an interstellar object has been spotted inside our group of ...
A strange interstellar object is racing toward our solar system, and while NASA says it’s a comet, a top Harvard scientist ...
It was only discovered last month (1 July) by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile and NASA was quick to confirm that the ...
Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...
A MYSTERIOUS cosmic object has been spotted zooming through our solar system – and astronomers say it is only the third of ...
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