ISS to be decommissioned by 2031

Commercial enterprises will replace ISS activities in low-Earth orbit

Widest brown dwarf binary pair discovered

The duo was found with help from citizen science project Backyard Worlds

Leftovers from the Milky Way’s galactic meals

Like most large galaxies, ours grew by consuming smaller ones

Webb images target star to align its mirrors

The JWST has taken its first image of a star

News in brief

A brief roundup of the latest astronomy news

Saturn glows with its own aurorae

Light shows may interfere with how scientists take measurements of the planet’s days

Hidden black hole revealed

Astronomers discover the black hole at the centre of galaxy M77

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