New study suggests it likely doesn't have air. Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun‘s closest space neighbor, Proxima Centauri. The star, just four light-years away, is known as a red dwarf, or M-type, and is quite different from …
Webb telescope's new photo isn't just rare. It's psychedelic.
“A rare cosmic phenomenon.” Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to survey distant galaxies spotted an unusual, chance phenomenon called an “Einstein ring.” It’s not an actual object, but a warped, mind-bending optical illusion. “The picture features a rare cosmic phenomenon — an Einstein ring. …