Seeing the Formation of Planets

Watch in 1080p. See how the Webb Space Telescope will study planetary bodies with our solar system and planets orbiting other stars. Its operations in the years to come promise [...]

Imagining Extrasolar Planets

From the Spitzer Science Center. While astronomers have identified over 500 planets around other stars, they’re all too small and distant to fill even a single pixel in our most [...]

Planet from Another Galaxy (about to get cooked)

From EsoCast. An exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our Milky Way from another galaxy has been detected by a European team of astronomers. The Jupiter-like planet is particularly unusual, [...]

How Solar Systems & Planets Evolve

From NASA’s James Webb Telescope, feast on this gorgeous, ground-breaking visualization that explores how stars form in dense dusty regions of our galaxy such as the Eagle nebula. With its [...]

Curious ExoPlanet Hot Spot

From the Spitzer Science Center: The gas-giant planet, named upsilon Andromedae b, orbits tightly around its star, with one face perpetually boiling under the star’s heat. It belongs to a [...]