John Wenz, Author at Astronomy.com

An artist’s rendering of the warm exoplanet WASP-80 b whose color may appear bluish to human eyes due to the lack of high-altitude clouds and the presence of atmospheric methane identified by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, similar to the planets Uranus and Neptune in our own solar system. Image credit: NASA.

Exoplanets, Science

JWST detects methane in atmosphere of scorching hot WASP-80 b

An artist’s impression of the disc and jet in the young star system HH 1177. Credit: The European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Exoplanets, Robotic Spaceflight, Science, Space Exploration

Astronomers discover disk around star in another galaxy for the 1st time ever

Light from 23 distant galaxies, identified with red rectangles in the Hubble Space Telescope image at the top, were combined to capture incredibly faint emission from eight different elements, which are labelled in the JWST spectrum at the bottom. Although scientists regularly find these elements on Earth, astronomers rarely, if ever, observe many of them in distant galaxies. Credit: Aaron M. Geller, Northwestern, CIERA + IT-RCDS

Galaxies, Science

JWST uncovers a surprising amount of nickel in adolescent galaxies

An artistic impression of WASP-107b and its parent star. Illustration: LUCA School of Arts, Belgium/ Klaas Verpoest (visuals), Johan Van Looveren (typography). Science: Achrène Dyrek (CEA and Université Paris Cité, France), Michiel Min (SRON, the Netherlands), Leen Decin (KU Leuven, Belgium) / European MIRI EXO GTO team / ESA / NASA

Exoplanets, Science

WASP-107b, a weird exoplanet where it rains sand

Artist’s impression of the dwarf planet Eris. Credit: ESO/L.Calçada and Nick Risinger

A moon helps to uncover strange solar system body Eris

An artistic impression of a gamma-ray burst from a galaxy almost two billion light-years away. Credit: ESA/ATG Europe; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Exotic Objects, Science

Massive gamma-ray burst reached Earth’s ionosphere

The Euclid image of the Horsehead Nebula, an iconic target for backyard astrophotographers and space telescopes alike. Credit: ESA.

Cosmology, Galaxies, Science, Stars

Euclid telescope releases first awe-inspiring images in dark universe hunt

Theia slams into a young Earth in this artist's conception. Credit: Hernan Canellas/ASU

Science, Solar System

Theia slammed into Earth, left marks and then formed the Moon, study suggests

A rendering of what laser-built roads on the moon might look like. Credit: Liquifer Systems Group

Human Spaceflight, Solar System, The Moon

Light — and a big lens — could build roads on the Moon

Gas giants like Jupiter, shown here, could be more common than previously thought.

Exoplanets, Planets, Science, Solar System

Why a solar system like ours might be more common than we think

This diagram outlines the basic stages of the aerocapture technique.

Robotic Spaceflight, Space Exploration

Aerocapture: Using a planet’s atmosphere to slow down a spacecraft

Can AI find life in the universe?