Most of that brightness increase has been in the green part of the visible light spectrum, suggesting a “surge of gas production as the comet nears the Sun,” according to SpaceWeather. “The key ...
The map, spanning 4,000 light-years from the sun in all directions, combines a chart of space dust with the effects of a rare type of young, hot star.
In fact, the Euclid Consortium, the international group managing the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, just ...
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured the motion of spirals of dust around a young star and shown that the winding motion of the spiral pattern is conducive to planet ...
The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.