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James Webb space telescope
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We’ve Never Been Closer to Finding Life Outside Our Solar System
In 2025, we might detect the first signs of life outside our solar system. Crucial to this potential…
JWST images: 10 stunning images that show the beauty of space – from galaxies to nebulae
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO In its short existence, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has transformed…
Sophie Koudmani: The astrophysicist unravelling the origins of supermassive black holes
Supermassive black holes are, as you might expect, rather large – millions and sometimes billions of times as…
The Biggest Controversy in Cosmology Just Got Bigger
A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists…
JWST found rogue worlds that blur the line between stars and planets
Stellar cluster NGC 1333 is home to a large number of brown dwarfs NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/NOAO/DSS Astronomers have found six…
Banana-shaped galaxies are helping unpeel the mysteries of dark matter
Astronomers have been spotting strange banana-shaped galaxies and the evidence seems to indicate that filaments of dark matter…
Stunning JWST image proves we were right about how young stars form
The Serpens Nebula: aligned jets are visible as a series of red streaks in the top left corner…
JWST spotted an incredible number of supernovae in the early universe
Many of the circled objects represent previously unknown supernovae NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, JADES Collaboration Astronomers using the…
Early galaxy seen by JWST contains giant young stars and supernovae
GLASS-z12, a very early galaxy viewed by the James Webb Space Telescope Naidu et al, P. Oesch,…
Some of the greatest cosmic discoveries have come about by accident
FOR a $10 billion instrument, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spends a lot of its time staring…