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'Utterly cataclysmic': James Webb telescope spots 2 alien planets disintegrating before our eyes

In world-first observations, the James Webb Space Telescope is watching two distant alien planets "spilling their guts into space" as they rapidly disintegrate — and scientists are elated at what they've found.

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'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch

Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, affecting science.

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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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James Webb Space Telescope reveals how a cosmic 'Phoenix' cools off to birth stars

Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James Webb Space Telescope has now learned how this galaxy cluster does it.

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Some planet-forming stars never 'grow up' and lose their 'Peter Pan' disks

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to study a planet-forming disk around a low-mass star, finding it contains chemical signatures never seen before in such a disk.

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James Webb Space Telescope images bacteria-size dust grains — they'll likely turn into exoplanets

The James Webb Space Telescope's new image spotlights dust grains in a distant protoplanetary disk, allowing astronomers to study how planets are formed in intricate detail.

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Space photo of the week: James Webb and Hubble telescopes unite to solve 'impossible' planet mystery

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where planets formed in the early universe.

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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even the JWST can't exactly do.

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James Webb Space Telescope's 'big sky images' issued on stamps in Big Sky, Montana

The unobstructed skies that gave Big Sky, Montana its name made for an appropriate setting for the release of two postage stamps depicting vistas visible to the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are 1,000 times larger than they should be, and astronomers don't know why

"Little red dot" galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early cosmos appear to be ruled by supermassive black holes that are 1,000 times too massive.

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3 years of James Webb Space Telescope data on alien worlds now available online

The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just three years. A new project celebrates its impact on the study of exoplanets, worlds beyond the solar system.

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Step inside a virtual reality art piece inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope

Ashley Zelinskie's VR artwork Twin Quasar was inspired by the iconic deep-space image from the James Webb Space Telescope that introduced a new audience to gravitational lensing.

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Centuries-old supernova guides James Webb Space Telescope through an interstellar gap

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the first exquisite images of an interstellar patch of sky, about 11,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.

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James Webb Space Telescope watches planet-forming dust shells zooming through space

The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second.

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Are James Webb Space Telescope images really so colorful?

How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?

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James Webb Space Telescope sees little red dots feeding black holes: 'This is how you solve a universe-breaking problem'

The James Webb Space Telescope's ancient "little red dot" galaxies have been seen as a sign of "broken cosmology." Feeding supermassive black holes may have come to the rescue.

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James Webb telescope spies record-breaking hoard of stars hiding in a warped 'dragon' galaxy

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" galaxy, 6.5 billion light-years from Earth. It is the largest group of individually imaged stars ever seen at such a distance.

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James Webb Space Telescope spots record-breaking collection of stars in far-flung galaxy

The James Webb Space Telescope captured images of 44 individual stars in a gorgeous portrait of a distant galaxy.

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James Webb Space Telescope quiz: How well do you know the world's most powerful telescope?

The James Webb Space Telescope can look deeper (and earlier) into the cosmos than any telescope before it. How much do you know about this wonder of technology and its incredible findings?

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Black holes can squash star formation, James Webb Space Telescope finds

"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation in detail."

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5 times the James Webb telescope rewrote physics in 2024

The James Webb space telescope had several stunning findings this year that changed how we understand the universe.

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NASA space telescopes give Christmas Tree Cluster a festive makeover (photos)

The James Webb Space Telescope used a galaxy as a cosmic magnifying glass to find transient objects in the "Christmas Tree" cluster, a Winter Wonderland of even more galaxies.

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James Webb telescope spies stunning 'Firefly Sparkle' galaxy — a baby clone of the Milky Way being 'assembled brick by brick' in the early universe

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a baby, Milky Way-like galaxy that formed more than 13 billion years ago. This "Firefly Sparkle" galaxy could reveal how our own galaxy evolved.

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Webb mail: US Priority Mail stamps to again star deep space images in 2025

The universe of U.S. postage stamps featuring James Webb Space Telescope imagery is set to expand again in 2025. The U.S. Postal Service revealed its Priority Mail and Express flat rate stamps.

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James Webb Space Telescope witnesses Firefly Sparkle galaxy 'being assembled brick by brick' (image, video)

A relic galaxy has been uncovered from the early universe, revealing new clues about what our own Milky Way galaxy may have looked like back then.

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