Month: October 2025

Sterre en Planete radio podcast of 21st September 2025 – interview by Willie Koorts with Dr Pierre De Villiers

General Articles / By / 7 October, 2025

On Sunday evening Willie Koorts had a fascinating half hour interview with Pierre De Villiers, outlining his part in the establishment of the Hermanus Astronomy Centre and many of its interesting and unique projects and outreach activities over the years. Click here to listen to the podcast: Sterre en Planete Podcast  Also, here is a …

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(A-D) The first four Supermassive Dark Star spectral candidates. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2513193122

Potential smoking gun signature of supermassive dark stars found in JWST data

General Articles / By / 2 October, 2025

The first stars in the universe formed out of pristine hydrogen and helium clouds, in the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang. New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations reveal that some of the first stars in the universe could have been very different from regular (nuclear fusion-powered) stars, which have been …

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