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The first shocking images of the new James Webb Space Telescope

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than images from ground-based telescopes. In August of that year, Hubble made one of its first discoveries,

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James Webb telescope captures stunning image in space: Meet Leo P, a special dwarf galaxy

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb Telescope recently imaged.

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James Webb Space Telescope finds our Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole blowing bubbles (image, video)

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a detailed look at the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sgr A*, finding it endlessly blowing bubbles.

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Our galaxy's monster black hole is spitting out mysterious flares, James Webb telescope reveals

Sagittarius A*, our galaxy's supermassive black hole, is constantly producing strange eruptions. Astronomers are using the James Webb Space Telescope to find out why.

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James Webb Space Telescope unveils region with newborn star: See stunning photo

A stunning corner of the cosmos was recently revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope, and astronomers think the find will unveil more about the mysteries of both star and planet formation.

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Nasa using world’s most powerful telescope to examine asteroid that could smash into Earth

Scientists will point the world’s most powerful telescope at the asteroid 2024 YR4, in the hope of understanding whether it ...

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Webb investigates protoplanetary disk in extreme detail, observes...

What’s more, Webb used its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument to observe glowing interstellar gas and dust illuminated ...

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Telescope Meant to Hunt for Water in Cosmic Dust Grains Ready for Launch

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is scheduled to launch after February 27, 2025 ...

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Will an asteroid collide with Earth? How the Webb telescope will track 2024 YR4

the James Webb Space Telescope. In a blog post Monday confirming that the telescope would observe the near-Earth asteroid − known as 2024 YR4 − the European Space Agency (ESA) said the ...

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NASA’s Webb Space Telescope reveals ancient surface of Pluto and other celestial bodies for the first time

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Spectrograph instrument (NIRSpec) has “confirmed this, but in unexpected ways, and in unprecedented detail,” NASA explained in a ...

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Space, Politics, and Power: A Multifaceted Universe

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope provided an unprecedented view of events surrounding our galaxy's central black hole. Meanwhile, the Trump administration and Elon Musk target U.S. civil service for ...

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