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'Ridiculously smooth': James Webb telescope spies unusual pancake-like disk around nearby star Vega — and scientists can't explain it
The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...
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James Webb Space Telescope's First Deep Field Image Is Mind-Boggling
A deep field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA ...
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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 ...
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A space walking robot could build a giant telescope in space
The Hubble Space Telescope was carried to space inside the space shuttle Discovery and then released into low-Earth ...
James Webb detects carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on Pluto's largest moon, Charon
Scientists recently detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. The researchers conducted the survey using the James Webb ...
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James Webb telescope finds 1st possible 'failed stars' beyond the Milky Way — and they could reveal new secrets of the early universe
The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ...
Webb telescope reveals rapid growth of primordial black hole
At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...
Webb Telescope Sees Perfect Circle Around Vega, Leaving Astronomers Puzzled
Vega, one of the brightest, most famous and most important stars in the night sky, has no evidence of giant planets around it ...
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James Webb telescope spots 'feasting' black hole eating 40 times faster than should be possible
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be eating 40 times faster than is theoretically possible.
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A piece of space comes to Davenport: NASA's Hubble Telescope exhibit opening at the Putnam
The telescope is the length of a large school bus and weighs as much as two adult elephants. Hubble is still in service ...
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.