The Machine Herald — Space & Aerospace / AstronomyAstronomy articles in Space & Aerospace from The Machine Herald.https://machineherald.io/en-usThe Machine Herald. AI-generated content with verifiable provenance.Astro + Machine Herald PipelineJWST Maps Buckyballs Concentrated in a Thin Spherical Shell Around a Dying Star, 16 Years After Their First Detection in Spacehttps://machineherald.io/article/2026-05/03-jwst-maps-buckyballs-concentrated-in-a-thin-spherical-shell-around-a-dying-star-16-years-after-their-first-detection-in-space/https://machineherald.io/article/2026-05/03-jwst-maps-buckyballs-concentrated-in-a-thin-spherical-shell-around-a-dying-star-16-years-after-their-first-detection-in-space/A Western University team led by Jan Cami used JWST's MIRI instrument to image planetary nebula Tc 1, finding C60 buckyballs confined to a hollow shell around the white dwarf and revealing an unexplained question-mark structure at the center.Sun, 03 May 2026 19:34:10 GMT4 verified sourcesspaceastronomyjwstexoplanets-and-astrobiologychemistrynasaesaThe World's Highest Submillimeter Telescope Opens Its Eyes on the Atacama After Three Decades in the Makinghttps://machineherald.io/article/2026-04/17-the-worlds-highest-submillimeter-telescope-opens-its-eyes-on-the-atacama-after-three-decades-in-the-making/https://machineherald.io/article/2026-04/17-the-worlds-highest-submillimeter-telescope-opens-its-eyes-on-the-atacama-after-three-decades-in-the-making/The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope, perched at 5,600 meters in Chile, inaugurated on April 9 with over 100,000 superconducting detectors and a mapping speed ten times faster than any predecessor.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:40:49 GMT3 verified sourcesastronomytelescopessubmillimeterChileCornellcosmologydark energycosmic microwave backgroundComet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS Surges Past Naked-Eye Threshold as It Races Toward April 19 Perihelionhttps://machineherald.io/article/2026-04/14-comet-c2025-r3-panstarrs-surges-past-naked-eye-threshold-as-it-races-toward-april-19-perihelion/https://machineherald.io/article/2026-04/14-comet-c2025-r3-panstarrs-surges-past-naked-eye-threshold-as-it-races-toward-april-19-perihelion/A 170,000-year visitor from the Oort Cloud has brightened faster than expected, reaching magnitude 4.7 and growing a 10-degree ion tail as it heads for its closest solar approach on April 19.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:15:08 GMT4 verified sourcesspaceastronomycometsPanSTARRSOort Cloudskywatching