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Researchers Find First Picture of An Exoplanet! (In 11-Year-Old Hubble Data)

 Image of the disk around the star TWA 7 recorded using ESO’s Very Large Telescope’s SPHERE instrument. The image captured with JWST’s MIRI instrument is overlayed. We can clearly see the empty area around TWA 7 B in the R2 ring (CC #1). (Image Credit: JWST/ESO/Lagrange) 

JWST TWA7 

Learn more about TWA 7 b, an exoplanet with the mass of Saturn that was captured by creating a fake eclipse.

James Webb Space Telescope Captures Smallest Exoplanet Ever Seen in Historic First

The Big Crunch Theory. (Image Credit: Quality Stock Arts/Shutterstock)

The Big Crunch illustration

What is the Big Crunch theory? This theory is highly debated, but could be what happens when you hit the rewind button of the Big Bang.

The Big Crunch Theory Is Revived as Recent Data Shows Our Expanding Universe Slowing Down

The ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft got its first good look at the Sun's south pole in March 2025. (Image Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/SPICE Team, M. Janvier (ESA) & J. Plowman (SwRI))

Sun's south pole

Learn how the European Space Agency’s spacecraft captured a completely new view of the Sun, thanks to its novel tilted orbit. 

Here Are the First Images of the Sun’s South Pole, a Completely New View in Our Solar System

An unlucky massive star approaches a supermassive black hole. (Image Credit: University of Hawaiʻi)

Black hole eating star

Learn more about how astronomers have observed an unprecedented cosmic explosion that has the potential to transform the history of black holes.

Black Hole Feast Sparks Brightest Cosmic Explosion Ever Recorded

1859 Carrington Event. Illustration not associated with the event (Image Credit: Artsiom P/Shutterstock)

1859 Carrington Event solar flare from the sun

What was the 1859 Carrington Event? As a massive solar flare, this event disrupted global telegraph systems and caused visible auroras all over the world.

The 1859 Carrington Event Was the Most Intense Geomagnetic Storm – Could it Happen Again? 

This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), shows the molecular gas content of two galaxies involved in a cosmic collision. The one on the right hosts a quasar –– a supermassive black hole that is accreting material from its surroundings and releasing intense radiation directly into the other galaxy. 
Astronomers used the X-shooter instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) to detect the quasar’s light as it passes through an invisible halo of gas surrounding the galaxy on the left. In doing so, they could observe the damage that this radiation causes to the victim, disrupting its clouds of gas and hampering its ability to form new stars. (Image Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Balashev and P. Noterdaeme et al.)

Researchers Find First Picture of An Exoplanet! (In 11-Year-Old Hubble Data)

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