Loïc Albert

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope observed the exoplanet WASP-121b—a blazing gas giant circling perilously close to its star. It turns out the planet is losing its atmosphere: helium streams into space in two comet-like tails. One tail outruns the planet and plunges into the star, whi

New data from the JWST telescope on galaxy NGC 4696 in the Centaurus cluster have for the first time traced the kinematic connection between large-scale filaments and a compact circumnuclear disk with a radius of about 120 parsecs. The S-shaped structure, familiar from Hubble images, turned out to b