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Rubin Observatory Captured Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Before Its Discovery
Feb 11, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory recorded interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in wide-field commissioning data approximately ten days before its official discovery. Astronomers later identified the…
Egg Nebula: Hubble Captures Light Show Around a Rapidly Dying Star
Feb 10, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The late evolutionary stages of low- to intermediate-mass stars involve intense mass loss, asymmetric outflows, and rapid structural change. During this brief transition between the…
Hubble Captures Star Formation in Motion: Inside Lupus 3 and NGC 1333
Feb 9, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Star formation begins inside cold molecular clouds, where gravity slowly overwhelms thermal pressure and turbulence. These environments remain difficult to study because dust absorbs visible…
Fury in February: NASA Captures Consecutive Massive Solar Flares
Feb 5, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
In early February 2026, the Sun entered a short but intense phase of eruptive activity driven by rapid magnetic restructuring in a newly formed active…
NASA’s TESS Tracks Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS in Its Final Act
Feb 4, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Interstellar objects move through our solar system at extreme speeds. They follow unbound trajectories. And they leave forever. When comet 3I/ATLAS entered the inner solar…
JWST Reveals the Sharpest Ever Image of Dark Matter
Feb 2, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Modern cosmology rests on a quiet assumption: most of the universe does not shine. Galaxies, stars, gas, and dust account for only a small fraction…
Gemini North Photographs A Comet Breaking Apart After Perihelion
Feb 1, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Long-period comets provide a rare window into the earliest stages of solar system formation. These objects originate in the distant Oort Cloud and preserve primordial…
Inside a Lenticular Galaxy: Hubble Captures NGC 7722 in Unprecedented Detail
Jan 31, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Galaxies evolve through complex physical processes. Gravity reshapes them. Interactions disturb them. Gas and dust regulate their star formation. Over cosmic time, these mechanisms transform…
JWST and Chandra Uncovers a Massive Protocluster in the Early Universe
Jan 29, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers have found a massive structure forming in the early universe that overturns long-held ideas about cosmic evolution. In January 2026, a team using NASA’s…
JWST Uncovers MoM-z14: The Most Distant Galaxy Ever Detected
Jan 29, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The James Webb Space Telescope continues to redefine the observational frontier of modern astronomy. Using its near-infrared instruments, JWST now probes epochs that lie only…