Hubble captures glowing gas plume from distant galaxy

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a glowing plume of gas streaming from spiral galaxy NGC 4388, located 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, as the galaxy plunges through hot intracluster gas that strips material from its disk.

The James Webb Space Telescope discovered exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b, a Jupiter-mass world with an unprecedented helium-and-carbon-dominated atmosphere orbiting a pulsar every 7.8 hours, with gravitational forces distorting it into a lemon shape.

Scientists say the carbon-rich atmospheric composition, including molecular carbon compounds C3 and C2, defies explanation under current planetary formation theories, as it suggests an absence of oxygen and nitrogen unlike any known planet.

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