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    Hubble Reveals the Largest Known Planet-Forming Disc
    Dec 25, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Protoplanetary discs form as a natural outcome of star formation. Angular momentum conservation causes collapsing molecular cloud material to flatten into a rotating disc around…

    How a Young Star Launches Supersonic Jets: ALMA’s New Image of SVS 13
    Dec 24, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Jets are a natural consequence of star formation. When gas collapses to form a young star, angular momentum builds rapidly. That momentum must be removed…

    Gemini North Reveals Green Glow in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
    Dec 23, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Observations of small bodies on hyperbolic orbits provide direct evidence of material formed outside the solar system. Comet 3I/ATLAS is one such object. Identified through…

    Hubble Photographs a Galactic Illusion: Arp 4’s “Long-Distance Relationship”
    Dec 23, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Modern astronomy relies on precision. Distance measurements, spectral analysis, and high-resolution imaging define how scientists interpret the universe. Visual appearance alone rarely tells the full…

    Hubble Photographs Massive Collisions around Fomalhaut Star
    Dec 22, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    High-contrast imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed direct evidence of large-scale collisions in the Fomalhaut planetary system. Using multi-epoch optical data, astronomers identified…

    JWST Captures Westerlund 2: Reveals a Hidden Population of Brown Dwarfs
    Dec 21, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Star formation inside massive clusters remains one of the most difficult problems in modern astrophysics. Dense gas, extreme radiation, and intense stellar winds obscure the…

    NASA’s SPHEREx Produces the First Complete Infrared Map of the Sky
    Dec 19, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Recently, NASA achieved something astronomy had never done before. A single space telescope mapped the entire sky in infrared light using 102 distinct wavelength bands….

    X-Ray Images of 3I/ATLAS: XRISM and XMM-Newton Captures Interstellar Comet
    Dec 18, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS passed through the inner solar system only briefly. During its passage in December 2025, astronomers used two X-ray observatories to study it…

    Hubble Captures NGC 4388’s Escaping Gas Plume: A Galaxy Caught in Transformation
    Dec 18, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a galaxy in the middle of a slow but powerful transformation. The galaxy is NGC 4388, a spiral system…

    JWST Spots the Earliest Known Supernova: Discovery of GRB 250314A
    Dec 10, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Astronomers received an alert on March 14, 2025, and most of them treated it like another late-night gamma-ray burst notification. These alerts rarely point to…