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Celebrating Independence Day With Webb’s Star Formation Spectacle
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This new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope showcases a young protostar in the process of forming within a fiery hourglass-shaped ...
Webb Telescope Reveals Stunning Stellar Jets in Serpens Nebula
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In this image of the Serpens Nebula from the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found a grouping ...
Webb Space Telescope Cracks Case of Puffy “Microwaved Marshmallow” Exoplanet
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The warm gas giant WASP-107 b, known for its unusually low density and moderate temperature, may have its puffed-up atmosphere due to ...
Webb Finds Atmosphere on Rocky Exoplanet For the First Time
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Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists may have identified atmospheric gases on 55 Cancri e, a super-hot, rocky exoplanet. This discovery ...
Webb Maps Weather on Extreme Exoplanet WASP-43 b
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This artist’s concept shows what the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b could look like. WASP-43 b is a Jupiter-sized planet circling a ...
Hubble Celebrates 34th Anniversary With a Spectacular View of the Little Dumbbell Nebula
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Astronomers celebrated the 34th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope by capturing an image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula, 3400 light-years away. ...
NASA’s Webb and Hubble Team Up To Solve Universe Expansion Rate Puzzle
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The “Hubble Tension,” a discrepancy in the universe’s expansion rate, is scrutinized through the combined efforts of the Hubble and James Webb ...
Hubble Captures the Giant’s Roaring Storms and Volcanic Moon Io
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured new images of Jupiter on January 5-6, 2024, revealing dynamic weather patterns and notable storms like the ...
The Farthest Active Supermassive Black Hole Ever Found
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Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made groundbreaking discoveries in galaxy GN-z11, which is one of the most distant and ...
Galaxies Collide, Stars Awaken: Hubble’s Stunning Revelation
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed 12 interacting galaxies, revealing long tidal tails rich in gas, dust, and stars, along which 425 ...
