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Astronomers utilizing the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have identified an extraordinary presence of small gas-phase hydrocarbons—such as benzene, triacetylene, diacetylene, acetylene, methane, and methyl radicals—within…
Sheet Web Spider Psechrus Clavis is known to utilize the coloration and web of its own body as visual cues to effectively capture and consume insects.…
Scientists at the University of Michigan say the twisted shape of the nanostructured filaments allows them to generate bright, twisted light. Planck's law ignores, but does…
Cygnus X-3It is an X-ray binary system located about 7,400 parsecs (24,136 light years) away in the constellation Cygnus, and analysis of the data indicates that…
Astronomers Multi-unit spectroscopic probe The (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile has imaged Propride, an externally illuminated protoplanetary disk around a young…
Artist's impression of record-breaking quasar J0529-4351ESO/M.Kornmesser A quasar 500 trillion times brighter than the Sun has earned the title of the brightest known object in the…