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Robert Lea

James Webb Space Telescope makes rare detection of 2 exoplanets orbiting dead stars

An illustration shows a Jupiter like world orbiting a dead whire dwarf star.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already proven itself adept at peering into the past by imaging objects at tremendous distances, but a new breakthrough may have seen the powerful instrument act almost like a scientific crystal ball, staring into the far future of the solar system. 

The JWST performed its prognostication when it made a possible rare direct direction of two extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," orbiting two different dead stars, or "white dwarfs." 

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