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| | In a paper published today in Nature, scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study; the University of Victoria, Canada; and the University of Warwick, U.K., have proposed a new theory that explains why a puzzling population of white dwarf stars stopped cooling for ten billion years.
| | astronomy.swin.edu.au
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| | www.spitzer.caltech.edu
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| | [AI summary] Astronomers have identified a dense, dim remnant star orbiting an exoplanet and debris disk with heavy elements indicating past planetary destruction.
| | asd.gsfc.nasa.gov
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| I get a lot of questions asking why the James Webb Space Telescope is infrared, and how its images can hope to compare to the (primarily) optical Hubble Space Telescope. Why would NASA build something that isn't going to capture beautiful images exactly like Hubble does? The short answer to this is that JWST will absolutely capture beautiful images of the universe, even if it won't see exactly what Hubble does. (Spoiler: it will see a lot of things even better.) There are legit scientific reasons for JWS...