Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have begun the study of SNR 1987A, one of the most renowned supernova remnants.
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The oxygen-28 (28O) nucleus is of particular interest as, with the Z = 8 (protons) and N = 20 (neutrons) magic numbers, it is expected in the standard...
The millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038 is known to switch between two brightness modes almost constantly, something that until now has been an enigma.
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A family of medium-sized iguanodontian dinosaurs called the Rhabdodontidae was one of the most important dinosaur groups inhabiting the ancient European...
This portrait of the interacting grand design spiral galaxy Messier 51 is a composite image that integrates data from the Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam)...
Paleontologists from Yunnan University, the University of Leicester and the Natural History Museum, London have conducted a microtomographic study of new...
Chromium hydride is often used to probe atmospheric temperatures and classify objects called brown dwarfs into spectral types because it’s abundant only...
The 100-million-year extensive fossil record of bee brood nests and cells in sedimentary deposits, or paleosols, is usually devoid of the presence of their...
Active galactic nuclei are primarily powered by a supermassive black hole lying at the center of a host galaxy that is accreting matter from its vicinity....
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of the dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 300-16.
This Hubble image shows ESO 300-16, a dwarf...
A new genus and species of pterosaur precursor has been described from a 230-million-year-old partial skeleton found in southern Brazil.
Life reconstruction...
Arenaerpeton supinatus is the fourth species of chigutisaurid temnospondyl amphibian from Australia and the first from the Sydney Basin.
Life reconstruction...
Molecular de-extinction could offer avenues for drug discovery by reintroducing bioactive molecules that are no longer encoded by living organisms.
Archaic...
The 4,000-year-old network of ceramic water pipes unearthed at the archaeological site of Pingliangtai on the Central Plains of China represents an unprecedented...
WD 0032-317B, a brown dwarf orbiting around the hot, low-mass white dwarf WD 0032-317, is estimated to have a surface temperature of about 8,000 K and...
The newly-described saurosphargid reptile Prosaurosphargis yingzishanensis represents the earliest known occurrence of its clade.
Life reconstruction of...
Astronomers using ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at Paranal Observatory have produced a spectacularly detailed infrared...
The Hubble astronomers have released a new image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the massive galaxy cluster ACO 3322.
This Hubble image...
Hupehsuchus nanchangensis, a species of marine reptile that lived between 249 and 247 million years ago in what is now China, had soft structures such...
Chaetae are stiff bristles made of chitin that characterize many species of annelid worms.
Reconstruction of Shaihuludia shurikeni from the Spence Shale...
