Day: February 25, 2026

The center of the Milky Way is an extreme place. In addition to housing our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, it also contains a 700-light-year-wide region of dense gas called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). This CMZ holds nearly 80 percent of all the cold, dense gas in the galaxy — the key ingredient for formingContinue reading “Largest ALMA image ever shows cold gas in our galactic center”

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Webb Maps Uranus’ Upper Atmosphere – For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the planet.

For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the planet.

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