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JWST Finds Magnetic Jets Yield to Photoevaporative Winds, Closing the Window for Gas-Planet Formation

To narrow when planets can grab gas, researchers will next map how much mass each wind removes and where in disks those processes act.

Webb’s Infrared Images Reveal Hidden Dust and Gas Inside the Lion Nebula

Gas Streamer Likely Tilted GW Orionis' Triple-Star Disk

Simulations Suggest Milky Way Disk Flipped After Ancient 'Gaia Sausage' Collision

New JWST Findings Complicate Origins of Little Red Dots

JWST and ALMA Image Supernova-Driven Wind Stripping Gas From a z≈5.3 Galaxy

Webb and Hubble Show Massive Star Clusters Shed Birth Clouds Sooner

Webb Reveals Non-Rotating Massive Galaxy in the Early Universe

Hubble Marks 36 Years With New Trifid Nebula Image Showing Change

Hubble Marks 36 Years With Sharper Trifid Nebula Portrait That Shows Change

Astronomers Reconstruct NGC 1365’s 12-Billion-Year Past With Extragalactic Archaeology

Second Forming Planet Confirmed in WISPIT 2 Disk

ALMA Team Releases Largest Radio Map of the Milky Way’s Core

ALMA Unveils Record 650-Light-Year Mosaic of the Milky Way’s Turbulent Core

ALMA Unveils 650-Light-Year Mosaic of the Milky Way’s Core, Revealing a Dense Filament Web

Hubble Unveils Clearest Image Yet of the Egg Nebula

JWST Sees Protostar Forge Crystals in Outbursts, Then Hurl Them to Comet-Building Zones

Precessing Black Hole Jet in VV 340a Drives Vast Outflow in Young Disk Galaxy

Nature Study Weighs Four Young V1298 Tau Planets, Revealing Ultra‑Low Densities

Hubble Captures Record-Breaking Chaotic Planet-Forming Disk 1,000 Light-Years Away