‘Light Echoes’ used to study Protoplanetary Disks
Astronomers used a method called “photo-reverberation,” also known as “light echoes,” to determine the distance from a star to the inner rim of its surrounding protoplanetary disk.
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Most Distant Galaxy ever discovered
Hubble space telescope spots the most distant galaxy yet, existed just 400 million years after the Big Bang, breaking cosmic distance record.
A giant gathering of Galaxies discovered
Astronomers have discovered a giant gathering of galaxies located 8.5 billion light-years away, is the most massive structure yet found at such great distances.
Closest Rocky Exoplanet confirmed
The closest rocky exoplanet confirmed outside our solar system, lies 21 light-years away, located just off the “W” pattern of the Cassiopeia constellation.