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Travel to James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam and MIRI instrument views of protostar L1527. The protostar is about 100,000 ...
But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...
Firefly Sparkle,” a galaxy that existed about 600 million years after the big bang, has been imaged by the James Webb Space ...
Both cameras are far more sensitive than the standard cameras used on Earth. NIRCam and MIRI can detect the tiniest amounts ...
Astronomers believe they've uncovered the source behind mysterious cosmic signals known as fast x-ray transients (FXTs) — and ...
Now imagine that this enormous mirror is made not of precisely manufactured glass segments, but of liquid floating in space.
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Recent photographs captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope showcase the formation of young stars within a distinctive ...
The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...
A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...
On July 11, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope finished its commissioning and commenced science operations. In the three ...
Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing the cosmos. To mark Webb's third year of operations, NASA shared an image ...
Despite unprecedented achievements in the 21st century, we seem to have lost our collective awe when it comes to space.