naturalsciences
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Newest Webb Image Is a Stunning View of a Star’s Penultimate Stage
The Webb Space Telescope has produced a stupendous view of a Wolf-Rayet star, an extraordinarily bright object in the sky that (you may want to sit down) will soon die.
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Radio Telescope Spots Tons of Water in Distant Protoplanetary Disc
Researchers studying a distant star forming within a dusty cloud have found an abundance of water in its immediate vicinity, which could have implications for the origins of the water in our own solar system.
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NASA Will Launch Israel’s First Space Telescope, Set to View Fleeting Events Like Supernovae
Israel’s first space telescope is set to reach geostationary orbit in 2026, and NASA is going to get it there, the agency announced Tuesday. The mission is called the Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT), and it will scrutinize short-duration events like supernovae and stellar mergers.
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Scientists Discover Molten Layer of Rock Beneath Earth’s Crust
Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are a result of the movement of large swaths of Earth’s crust, but while the theory of plate tectonics has been widely accepted as a fundamental law of geology, there are still things to be discovered. New research from the University of Texas Austin points to the presence of a partly…