Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

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Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...

The technology that would allow humans to leave the Milky Way is barely imaginable, but it seems the carbon and oxygen that ...

It proved the Andromeda Nebula is immensely distant from Earth, demonstrating that the Milky Way is not the whole universe, ...

Astronomers used JWST and gravitational lensing to spot 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away.

Telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope can observe some incredibly distant galaxies, stretching all the ...

Jan. 3, 2025 — Scientists recently discovered that the giant 'conveyer belt' currents that push star-forged material out of our galaxy and pull it back in can also transport carbon atoms.

NSF NOIRLab rings in the New Year with a glittering galaxyscape captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy ...