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Webb Releases Multiwavelength View of the 'Butterfly Star,' Revealing Dust Settling in a Planet-Building Disk

A focused program targets edge-on disks to quantify grain growth and settling.

JWST Finds CO2-Dominated Planet-Forming Disk in NGC 6357 With Little Water

Inouye Solar Telescope Publishes Sharpest-Ever X-Class Flare View, Resolving 21–48 Km Loop Strands

Webb and SPHEREx Map CO2‑Dominated Coma of Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS

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Webb Reveals Butterfly Nebula’s Hidden Core and Planet-Building Dust

Astronomers Directly Image Newborn Planet in Multi-Ringed Disk in First Clear Case

DKIST Delivers Sharpest-Ever Solar Flare Images in Peer-Reviewed Study

Webb and SPHEREx Confirm CO2-Dominated Coma Around Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Reanalysis Sharpens 1977 'Wow!' Signal: Stronger, Higher-Frequency, Tighter Origin

Brightest Fast Radio Burst Precisely Located in Nearby Galaxy Using CHIME Outriggers

UC Santa Cruz Model Recasts Sub‑Neptune ‘Steam Worlds’ With Colder, Smaller Interiors

China's JUNO Neutrino Observatory Starts Collecting Data to Probe Mass Ordering

Study Pins Jupiter’s Birth to 1.8 Million Years After the Solar System Began

Inouye Solar Telescope Resolves Solar Flare Loops as Thin as 21 Kilometers

Blood Moon Total Lunar Eclipse Set for Sept. 7–8 With Prime Views in Asia

Nature Study Reveals Rare Supernova That Exposed a Star’s Inner Layers

CHIME Outriggers Pinpoint Brightest Nearby Fast Radio Burst to Galaxy NGC 4141

Astronomers Identify Ultra-Stripped Supernova, Propose New ‘Type Ien’

CHIME Outriggers Pinpoint Record-Bright Fast Radio Burst to Nearby Spiral Galaxy

Study Maps Where Earth's Deep-Space Signals Leak and How SETI Should Listen