An image that went viral in August 2023 genuinely depicted a "question mark" formation in space. The viral photograph was a zoomed-in, cropped version of an image taken by a special camera on NASA's ...

Late last month NASA and ESA released a swirling infrared vista capturing an evolutionary snapshot of the formation of two nascent stars, known collectively as Herbig-Haro 46/47. As reported by Space ...

The young stars are buried deeply, appearing as an orange-white splotch in the image, surrounded by a disk of gas and dust that continues to add to their mass. A closer look at the image reveals that ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope was conducting its usual business — staring at objects of scientific interest across the cosmos — when it accidentally captured something hilariously familiar in the ...

Close scrutiny of a recent image from the Webb Space Telescope revealed some questionable punctuation. By Dennis Overbye The astronomers will tell you it is just an optical illusion, a pair of ...

The object is far outside our galactic neighborhood, possibly billions of light-years away. But astronomers have seen similar objects closer to home. This glowing red question mark was captured in the ...

The viral photograph was a zoomed-in, cropped version of an image taken by a special camera on NASA's Webb Space Telescope. That image was a composite of multiple exposures. The viral photograph was ...