Astronomy
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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.
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The World's 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.
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Comet C/2025 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.
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