James Webb Space Telescope
Ancient Black Hole Collision Spotted, Occurred Shortly After the Big Bang
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The cutting-edge Webb Space Telescope has spotted the most distant black hole merger yet, which occurred when the universe was just 740 ...
Webb Finds Atmosphere on Rocky Exoplanet For the First Time
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Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists may have identified atmospheric gases on 55 Cancri e, a super-hot, rocky exoplanet. This discovery ...
James Webb Space Telescope chief scientist Jane Rigby receives highest US civilian award
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When I sat down with Jane Rigby last month, in an upper-floor conference room at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis — a quiet ...
A failed star and an ammonia trail could reveal how some giant exoplanets form
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Astronomers now have a way to figure out how gas-giant planets form, thanks to a discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope ...
Astronomers finally detect a rocky planet with an atmosphere
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Astronomers have searched for years for rocky planets beyond our solar system with an atmosphere – ...
James Webb Space Telescope suggests supermassive black holes grew from heavy cosmic ‘seeds’
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has observed light from stars surrounding some of the earlier supermassive black holes in the universe ...
Webb Maps Weather on Extreme Exoplanet WASP-43 b
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This artist’s concept shows what the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b could look like. WASP-43 b is a Jupiter-sized planet circling a ...
James Webb Space Telescope forecasts clouds of melted rock on this blisteringly hot exoplanet
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has performed a weather report for a distant planet. The powerful space telescope forecasts extreme wind ...
NASA releases ‘unprecedented’ Horsehead Nebula image captured by James Webb Space Telescope. What to know about the stellar nursery.
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The world’s most powerful space telescope, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has just released the sharpest infrared images to date of the ...
Most Promising Indication Of Life On Another Planet Found, Courtesy James Webb
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Scientists are focusing on detecting dimethyl sulphide (DMS) in its atmosphere. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most powerful telescope ever ...