New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed fresh details about one of the most luminous known objects in the universe: the dust-shrouded quasar W2246−0526, seen just 1.2 ...
Astronomers may have found an explanation for one of the biggest mysteries revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): ...
Somewhere in the southern sky, light that left a small galaxy roughly 13 billion years ago finally landed on the detectors of ...
Saharan dust is exactly what it sounds like: fine sand and mineral particles from the Sahara Desert in North Africa, the largest hot desert in the world and third largest desert overall. Surprisingly, ...
Dust is many things. At its most elemental, dust is a blend of dead skin, hair, fibers from clothing and other textiles, soil, pollen, dander, insect corpses, dust mites. Dust can be a health hazard, ...
The first big surge of Saharan dust from Africa has been sweeping through the Atlantic and Caribbean the past few days and has now spread into Florida. The analysis below shows the highest ...
In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two ...