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Using the world's largest radio telescope, astronomers have captured the most detailed image ever of the Milky Way's core, revealing its chemical makeup and secrets of star formation.
A discovery of 70 ancient, dusty galaxies by the James Webb Space Telescope challenges current models of cosmic evolution, suggesting star formation began much earlier than believed.
Astronomers using the ALMA telescope have captured the first detailed images of the chaotic 'teenage' years of exoplanets, a violent and previously unseen phase.
Astronomers have discovered a young galaxy being slowly starved by its central black hole in a process described as a "death by a thousand cuts."
Astronomers have discovered over 400 cosmic 'tree rings' around a young star, providing the first direct evidence of how stars grow through violent outbursts.
New research using ALMA data suggests an unseen planet, potentially 1-16 times Earth's mass, is gravitationally sculpting the debris disk around the star Fomalhaut.
New research on the V883 Orionis star system shows its water is older than the star itself, suggesting Earth's water may also predate the sun.
