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  Astronomers Capture Two Giant Planets Forming Around Young Star WISPIT 2

  Astronomers have directly imaged two giant planets forming around the young star WISPIT 2. The system, just 5.4 million years old, shows rings, gaps, and active planet formation, offering a rare real-time glimpse into how solar systems like ours are born.

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  NASA Shares Image Revealing Egg Nebula's "Yolk" Star And Dust Cloud

  According to astronomers, these types of aging stars produce large amounts of cosmic dust and spread it into space.

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  Astronomers Create the Largest 3D Map of the Early Universe’s Hydrogen Glow

  Astronomers created the largest 3D map of hydrogen emission from the early universe using data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment. The map reveals large cosmic structures during the universe’s peak star-forming era about 9–11 billion years ago.

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  Union Budget 2026 Puts Telescopes At Heart Of India's Science Vision

  While presenting the Union Budget 2026-27, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman covered traditional spheres like taxes, infrastructure and agriculture, but also looked to the sky.

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  James Webb Helps Astronomers Chart the Universe’s Hidden Dark Matter

  Astronomers have created the sharpest map yet of dark matter using deep observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. By analysing the gravitational distortion of hundreds of thousands of distant galaxies, the team traced invisible dark matter across a large region of the sky. The results confirm that dark matter forms the scaffolding arou...

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  Astronomers Find ‘Mystery Engine’ Powering Massive Nebula Around a Dead Star, Challenging Physics

  Astronomers have discovered a striking shockwave around the white dwarf RXJ0528+2838, a finding that contradicts existing theories. Observed using the Very Large Telescope, the structure suggests a long-lasting outflow from a system thought to be inactive. The mystery points to an unknown energy source shaping how dead stars interact with space.

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  Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) Breaks Into Three Pieces Following Close Approach to the Sun

  NASA's fractured comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) dazzled stargazers on Monday night, offering a rare live view of a cosmic object breaking apart after a close encounter with the Sun. The livestream, organised by the Virtual Telescope Project, began at 10 p.m. EST on November 24 (0300 GMT on November 25) and will broadcast telescopic views of the comet's mu...

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  Astronomers Capture First-Ever Early Snapshot of Supernova Shock Wave Using ESO’s VLT

  Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have captured a rare early look at supernova SN 2024ggi, just one day after its discovery. The blast shockwave appeared olive-shaped—not spherical—revealing surprising asymmetry in the explosion. Recorded with the FORS2 instrument, the data shows the shock-breakout phase in unprecedented detail. Th...

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  James Webb Space Telescope Spots Planet-Building Dust in the Butterfly Nebula

  The James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled stunning new details of the Butterfly Nebula, a planetary nebula 3,400 light-years away. Using its infrared vision, Webb detected crystalline silicates, large dust grains, and carbon-rich PAH molecules within the nebula’s dusty torus. These discoveries reveal how dying stars recycle minerals and organic...

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  A Planet Is Being Born: Astronomers Capture Rare Cosmic Snapshot

  Astronomers have captured a groundbreaking sight: WISPIT 2b, a baby gas giant planet forming within a dusty, multi-ring protoplanetary disk around a young Sun-like star 430 light-years away. Infrared images from the Very Large Telescope show the planet carving a dark path in the rings as it feeds on gas and dust. This rare discovery provides the fi...