Universe Today
The Los Angeles Fires Got Extremely Close to NASA's JPL Facility
Dark Matter Can't Be Too Heavy
Space Itself May Have Created Galaxies
A Flexible, Adaptable Space Metamaterial
SpaceX Catches Booster But Loses Ship in Starship Test Flight
The Most Accurate View of the Milky Way
Webb and ALMA Team Up to Study Primeval Galaxy
Colliding Stars, Stellar Siphoning, and a now a "Blue Lurker." This Star System has Seen it All
Recent Observations Challenge our Understanding of Giant Black Holes
An Even Ghostlier Neutrino May Rule the Universe
The Gaia Mission's Science Operations are Over
The First Supernovae Flooded the Early Universe With Water
Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen: H2O. The H was formed during the Big Bang, but it took the first stars in the Universe to create the O, manufacturing it in their cores before they detonated as supernovae. In a new study, researchers suggest that those first supernovae released water into the Universe within the first 100-200 million years after the Big Bang, concentrating it into dense molecular clouds. Water needed for life was there, right at the beginning.
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Galaxy Cores May be Giant Fuzzy Dark Stars
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Webb Provides an Explanation for "Little Red Dots"
Astronomers Reveal the 3D Structure of the Ring Nebula
It's Official, 2024 Was the Hottest Year on Record
