JWST

Webb finds never-before-seen structures above Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

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Dr. Sarah Adams

9 Using the joint NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) James Webb Space Telescope, a group of scientists ...

James Webb Space Telescope spies strange shapes above Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (image)

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have found previously unseen structures and activity in Jupiter’s atmosphere above the Great Red ...

James Webb Space Telescope spots ‘Cosmic Gems’ in the extremely early universe (video)

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered star clusters in the “Cosmic Gems” arc that existed just 460 million ...

James Webb Space Telescope spots the 2 earliest galaxies ever seen (image)

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Dr. Sarah Adams

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered not one but two of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen, continuing ...

Exotic ‘Einstein ring’ suggests that mysterious dark matter interacts with itself

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Dr. Sarah Adams

In the field of one of JWST’s largest-area surveys, COSMOS-Web, an Einstein ring was discovered around a compact, distant galaxy. It turns ...

James Webb Space Telescope gets to the heart of a smoking starburst galaxy (images)

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Dr. Sarah Adams

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has zoomed in to the heart of the Cigar Galaxy, a region of space that is ...

Speck of light glimpsed by Hubble is truly an enormous old galaxy, James Webb Space Telescope reveals

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Dr. Sarah Adams

What was little more than a speck of light for the Hubble Space Telescope has been revealed as one of the oldest ...

James Webb Space Telescope observes 19 intricate galaxy structures in stunning detail (images)

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Recently released James Webb Space Telescope images of 19 distant galaxies shine an entirely new, dynamic and vibrant light on these gorgeous ...

12 out-of-this-world exoplanet discoveries in 2023

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Dr. Sarah Adams

This year saw planetary scientists add a number of exciting new worlds to our growing 5,000+ catalog of exoplanets. Among them are ...

James Webb Space Telescope spies record-breaking ‘failed star’ that shouldn’t exist (video)

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Dr. Sarah Adams

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted a record-breaking free-floating brown dwarf and two other so-called “failed stars” in a young ...