The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has seen Beta Pictoris like never before, capturing a previously unseen structure that is giving the young planetary system a dusty cat’s tail. Located 63 light-years away from us, Beta Pictoris is a star about twice the size of the Sun and eight times as bright, surrounded by a … Read more
Astronomers have discovered not one but two planetary systems with sun-like stars at their hearts. Both systems contain mini-Neptune planets and one is home to a huge “super-Jupiter” world, all of which are many times more massive than Earth. Studying these realms could lead to a better understanding of how planets form and evolve around … Read more
Astronomers have discovered an unusual star system located just 100 light-years away from us, with six planets immensely close to their parent star – so close, in fact, that all their orbits could fit within the distance between the stars. Mercury and our sun. It’s puzzling that this new part of the cosmos, unlike our … Read more