Nearly three years since launch, Webb is a hit among astronomers
These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.
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The best science books of 2024 tell an extraordinary story about life. The chance that strange lifeforms evolve in strange ...
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The Webb Telescope Found A Planet Orbiting A Star 35 Light Years Away — Its Data Is Just Plain Odd
Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...
Webb telescope finds hot young star Vega is actually quite lonely
Astronomers have pointed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble at nearby star Vega. Surprisingly, they haven't found ...
A distant planet seems to have a sulphur-rich atmosphere, hinting at alien volcanoes
Our team has now provided tentative evidence for a sulphur-rich atmosphere on a world that’s 1.5 times the size of Earth and ...
'Hand of God': The 'Hand of God' is actually a cloud of material ejected from a star that exploded. NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has image…
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The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made About Neptune
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...
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James Webb Telescope Unlocks Hidden Secrets of Failed Stars in the Orion Nebula
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is shedding light on mysteries surrounding brown dwarfs, following decades of questions ...
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Distant Planet's Sulphur Atmosphere Hints at Volcanoes
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets : planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goes ...
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European Space Agency and Arianespace at a crossroads
The European Space Agency (ESA) faces a crossroads as it works to prepare flights of the Vega-C and Ariane 6 as early as this ...
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Jupiter's Auroras, Moons And Rings via JW Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope Sees Jupiter's Rings, Moons and Auroras Credit: Space.com | imagery courtesy: NASA, ESA, Jupiter ...
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Space photo of the week: Hubble spots a stellar 'H-bomb' exploding in Aquarius at 1 million mph
In addition to this beautiful image of R Aquarii and Cederblad 211 from the Hubble Space Telescope, a time-lapse video was ...