For a while astronomers supported Kant, but later his “nebula hypothesis” lost scientific favor. More modern astronomers, notably Sir James Jeans, have conceded that the sun may have been ...

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The theory goes that as this Jupiter-sized planet ... of a planet seen to be destroyed by the central star in a planetary nebula." This finding isn't only a grizzly curiosity.

Some historians believed that Native Americans recorded this event in cave paintings as well, but that theory was recently debunked. European astronomers didn't notice the fainter nebula until ...

The image of the Serpens Nebula you see above ... outflows” visible in the top left support a longstanding theory. As suspected, the jets shoot out in alignment from the swirling disks of ...

Hubble Telescope image of the Horsehead Nebula. Credit: T.A.Rector (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) & Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA ...

Astronomers offered a new hypothesis for what created pairs of objects nicknamed JuMBOs, while other scientists argue they may not really exist. The Orion Nebula, top, seen from La Hayuela ...