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JWST Peers Back in Time to See First Stars

Posted on June 30, 2023July 27, 2023by pradeep

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made another groundbreaking discovery, this time by seeing the first starlight from ancient quasars. Quasars are extremely bright objects that are powered by supermassive black holes at their centers. They are among the most distant objects in the universe, and their light has...

Astronomers Discover First Radiation Belt Outside Our Solar System

Posted on June 1, 2023August 2, 2023by pradeep

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Astronomers Discover First Radiation Belt Outside Our Solar System

A team of astronomers has observed the first radiation belt outside our solar system, using an array of 39 radio dishes. The radiation belt, found around an ultracool dwarf, is similar to Jupiter's but 10 million times brighter. The discovery was made by a team led by Melodie Kao of...