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Webb telescope finds water surviving near Milky Way’s black hole

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected water molecules and silicate dust around a dying star just 0.55 light-years from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way — a discovery that challenges…

New telescope captures dying star recycling its material into space

Astronomers have discovered 22 bow-shaped shock waves in the outer reaches of the Helix Nebula, capturing for the first time the process by which a dying star's debris is broken apart and absorbed back into the galaxy. The findings, published…

Astronomers capture clearest image yet of Betelgeuse’s companion star

A team of astronomers has obtained the most definitive image to date of a star orbiting Betelgeuse, the red supergiant visible to the naked eye in the constellation Orion, ending what the lead researcher called "a century-long quest."