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Cosmic Nucleosynthesis: Mapping the Atomic Origins of the Periodic Table
Cosmic Nucleosynthesis: Mapping the Atomic Origins of the Periodic Table Featured on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day from the Goddard Space Flight Center’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS), an updated astrophysical periodic tabl... -
Solar Cannibalism: Did the Young Sun Engulf a Primordial Super-Earth?
Solar Cannibalism: Did the Young Sun Engulf a Primordial Super-Earth? One of the most persistent mysteries in comparative planetology is the complete absence of a "super-Earth" in our solar system. Across our galaxy, exoplanet surveys co... -
Catching the Solar Wind: From Apollo 11 Foil to Artemis Radiation Detectors
Catching the Solar Wind: From Apollo 11 Foil to Artemis Radiation Detectors Featured on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, a newly restored high-resolution photograph taken by Neil Armstrong captures Buzz Aldrin unfurling a gleaming sh... -
The Thousand-Ruby Galaxy: High-Energy Starburst Dynamics in M83
The Thousand-Ruby Galaxy: High-Energy Starburst Dynamics in M83 Featured on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, the majestic barred spiral galaxy Messier 83 (M83)—frequently celebrated as the Southern Pinwheel—reveals an intricate balan... -
Pristine Relics: Hubble and Webb Reveal Kuiper Belt Objects ‘Remember’ Solar System Birth
Pristine Relics: Hubble and Webb Reveal Kuiper Belt Objects 'Remember' Solar System Birth In a landmark joint survey conducted by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have completed an exha... -
Unmasking Alien Worlds: NASA’s Pandora SmallSat Mission Takes Flight
Unmasking Alien Worlds: NASA’s Pandora SmallSat Mission Takes Flight https://youtu.be/Inxe5Bgarj0?si=YdK1HpTQ1_5YH-X2 As the catalog of known exoplanets swells well into the thousands, the grand pursuit of astrophysics has crossed an unp... -
The Winking Architecture of XZ Andromedae and Precision Differential Photometry
The Winking Architecture of XZ Andromedae and Precision Differential Photometry Featured on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, dynamic light curve animations capture the periodic "winking" of XZ Andromedae, an Algol-type eclipsing bina... -
ALMA Observes Real-Time Assembly of a Massive Binary Star System
ALMA Observes Real-Time Assembly of a Massive Binary Star System In a milestone observation announced by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international research team led by astronomers Yichen Zhang and Jonathan... -
Ionization Fronts and Protostellar Jets in the Pelican Nebula
Ionization Fronts and Protostellar Jets in the Pelican Nebula Featured on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, new high-resolution narrowband composite imagery captures the turbulent boundary physics within the Pelican Nebula (IC 5070 an... -
Hubble Transmission Spectra Map Atmospheric Constraints Across Six TRAPPIST-1 Worlds
Hubble Transmission Spectra Map Atmospheric Constraints Across Six TRAPPIST-1 Worlds In a major expansion of comparative exoplanetology, the NASA Exoplanet Archive has ingested 48 new high-precision planetary spectra, anchored by a compr...
