James Webb Space Telescope captures the OMC-2 star-forming region in the Orion constellation, 1,280 light-years away. By using infrared vision to pierce thick gas and dust, astronomers reveal protostars launching energetic jets, detailing how gravity and energy shape stellar birth.

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A new James Webb telescope snap shows off the glowing gas, sculpted jets and newborn stars lurking within the giant cosmic cloud OMC-2, located in the Sword of Orion.

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Whoa! Simultaneous papers announcing the discovery of a new directly imaged planet - beta Pictoris d!!! arxiv.org/pdf/2606.23801 arxiv.org/pdf/2606.23789 It's just so BIG. I can't believe it's just so ROUND, it's like OUT THERE. 🪐 (Courtesy of my kids who have just discovered Sir Mix-A-Lot)

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Inspired by @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social and @ohdearz.bsky.social, here's what the White House proposed budget cuts to NASA would do to the entirety of the agency's Science Mission Directorate. Bloodbath is right.

"The Spanish expeditions in Florida were really the first opportunities for domestic cats to reach what is today the U.S."

Catquistadors: Oldest known domestic cats in the US died off Florida coast in a 1559 Spanish shipwreck

The 466-year-old remains of an adult and a juvenile cat are the oldest known in the modern-day United States, a new study finds.

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Black holes don't hold the monopoly on darkness. 'Dark nebulae', like the nearby Circinus molecular cloud, are regions of space so dense with gas & dust that light rarely escapes them. NSF's Dark Energy Camera just took one of the best-ever images of one. www.livescience.com/space/astron...

Scientists spot a 'dark nebula' being torn apart by rowdy infant stars — offering clues about our own solar system's past

The National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a stunning glimpse into the 'dark nebula' known as the Circinus West molecular cloud, a region of space that's so dense with gas that light...

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🔭 A Kilometer High Cliff on Comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko Image Credit & Licence (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO): ESA, Rosetta spacecraft, NAVCAM; Additional Processing: Stuart Atkinson apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24121...

The James Webb telescope may have just smashed its own record -- again. New observations reveal 5 candidate galaxies dating to just 200 million years after the Big Bang -- possibly some of the earliest to ever exist. Ben Turner has the story for Live Science: www.livescience.com/space/cosmol...

James Webb Space Telescope smashes its own record to find the earliest galaxies that ever existed

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted five galaxy candidates dating to just 200 million years after the Big Bang, making them the earliest ever detected. And there could be many more.

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Photons are like snowflakes. Each one has unique characteristics, determined by an endless interplay of environmental factors. Now, one team has managed to simplify that glut of uncertainty to bring us this: The first image of an individual photon ever taken ❄️ www.livescience.com/physics-math...

The shape of light: Scientists reveal image of an individual photon for 1st time ever

Using a groundbreaking new technique, researchers have unveiled the first detailed image of a photon — a single particle of light — ever taken.

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