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NASA/JPL
New Analysis Reveals Uranus’s Magnetic Field Was in Rare State During Voyager Flyby
Hubble and Webb Reveal Mysteriously Smooth Disk Around Bright Star Vega
Space Station Crew Returns After Advancing Cancer Research and Stem Cell Manufacturing in Orbit
NASA reveals prototype telescope for gravitational wave observatory
NASA Teams Up for a Double Take on Uranus: Hubble and New Horizons Get Up Close and Personal
NASA’s Laser Communication Breaks Distance Record, Paving Way for Future Space Exploration
NASA’s Hubble finds that a black hole beam promotes stellar eruptions
NASA Analysis Shows Irreversible Sea Level Rise for Pacific Islands
New Volcano Discovered on Jupiter’s Moon Io in First Close-Up Images in 25 Years
Webb Telescope Unveils Rare Cosmic ‘Question Mark’ in Distant Galaxy
NASA Taps Former Navy SEAL for International Space Station Mission
NASA data shows July 22 was Earth’s hottest day on record
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![Hubble and Webb Observations of Vega Circumstellar Debris Disk. [left]-A Hubble Space Telescope false-color view of a 100-billion-mile-wide disk of dust around the summer star Vega. Hubble detects reflected light from dust that is the size of smoke particles largely in a halo on the periphery of the disk. The disk is very smooth, with no evidence of embedded large planets. The black spot at the center blocks out the bright glow of the hot young star. [right]-The James Webb Space Telescope resolves the glow of warm dust in a disk halo, at 23 billion miles out. The outer disk (analogous to the solar system’s Kuiper Belt) extends from 7 billion miles to 15 billion miles. The inner disk extends from the inner edge of the outer disk down to close proximity to the star. There is a notable dip in surface brightness of the inner disk from approximately 3.7 to 7.2 billion miles. The black spot at the center is due to lack of data from saturation.](https://scienceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/vega-disk-300x200.jpeg)
