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JWST has taken astonishing images of debris orbiting a nearby star

11 January 2023

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has observed a glowing disc of debris left over from planet formation around a nearby star called AU Microscopii
Earth could theoretically host two more moons the same size as the current moon. If the extra moons were smaller, it could have even more.

Physicists work out how many moons Earth could have

12 August 2022

Simulations suggest that Earth could theoretically host two more moons the size of the one we've got now, or several smaller moons
most massive planet-hosting star pair to date

An unexpected giant planet is orbiting a massive pair of stars

8 December 2021

We thought that planets couldn’t form around stars with more than three times the mass of the sun, but planet b Cen (AB)b challenges the idea
Tracking the first interstellar asteroid back to its home star

Tracking the first interstellar asteroid back to its home star

9 November 2017

Last month, astronomers saw the first asteroid from outside our solar system speed by. Now, they're tracing its orbit back to find out where it came from

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