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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope took its first direct image of an exoplanet. The photographed gas giant has no rocky surface and is too far from its star to be habitable, but the image is a significant breakthrough for exoplanet exploration. Webb's powerful infrared gaze can easily capture worlds beyond our solar system, pointing the way to future observations that will reveal more information than ever before about exoplanets.

NASA releases first Webb Telescope image of exoplanet | Cornell Chronicle

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For the first time, astronomers — including Cornell postdoctoral fellow Eileen Gonzales — have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of a planet outside our solar system.

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Posted 4 months ago

New Quiz: Modern Astrophysics Quiz

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Analyzing data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories, astronomers have concluded that the red supergiant star Betelgeuse lost a substantial part of its visible surface in an event known as a Surface Mass Ejection (SME) in 2019. This is something never before seen in a normal star's behavior.

Our Sun routinely blows off parts of its tenuous outer atmosphere, the corona, in an event known as a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). But the Betelgeuse SME blasted off 400 billion times as much mass as a typical CME! The star is still slowly recovering from this catastrophic upheaval.

These new observations yield clues as to how red stars lose mass late in their lives as their nuclear fusion furnaces burn out, before exploding as supernovae.

Hubble Sees Red Supergiant Star Recovering After Blowing Its Top

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Analyzing data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories, astronomers have concluded that the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse quite literally blew its top in 2019.

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Posted 5 months ago

New Quiz: Asteroid Day Quiz

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Posted 6 months ago

All five classical naked-eye planets will be aligned in the early morning skies over the next couple of weeks in June. Capture photographs of this beautiful celestial event and share it with us using the hashtag #OnePeopleOneSky on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Via our friends at Astronomers Without Borders (AWB). IAAA is an affiliate member of AWB.

Worlds Align June 2022 - Astronomers Without Borders

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Posted 6 months ago

An international group led by INAF researchers have confirmed that a gamma-ray burst, which lasted less than two seconds – typical of short bursts – is associated with the explosion of a massive star, which is typical of long gamma-ray bursts.

AN UNEXPECTED GAMMA RAY BURST

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An international group led by INAF researchers have confirmed that the gamma-ray burst GRB 200826A, which lasted less than two seconds – typ...

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Posted 7 months ago

How to take a picture of a black hole

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Researchers in effect created a telescope with an Earth-sized aperture

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Posted 7 months ago

Image of Sgr A*, the black hole at the centre of our galaxy

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Posted 7 months ago

How to make a better spacesuit?

Spacesuits are showing their age

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Astronauts’ wardrobes are in need of a makeover

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Posted 8 months ago

Cooperation in astronomy under strains of war

Cooperation in astronomy under strains of war - Nature Astronomy

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As a result of the ongoing conflict, long-standing collaborations in astronomy and space are jeopardized and individual researchers are facing difficult choices that will have a long-term impact on...

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President, International Amateur Astronomical Association