Photo credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Pierluigi Rinaldi (Steward Observatory); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Since NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope first revealed mysterious “little red dots” (LRDs) in 2022, astronomers have been racing to understand what these strange objects really are. Compact, extremely distant and glowing red, they appear throughout the early universe, but…

Representative image of CME (Image credit: Nasa) BENGALURU: Scientists have developed a computer model that could help predict how quickly powerful eruptions from the Sun will travel towards Earth, potentially improving warnings for disruptions to satellites, power grids and communication systems.The three-dimensional model was developed by researchers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an…