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When an old Tafe campus is bought for a $50m makeover, what do you do? Fill it with art

Tasmania’s Mona Foma festival has taken over a car museum, a hardware store and now Launceston’s daggy former Tafe building, which is packed with art, music and performances

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The first photograph of the entire globe: 50 years on, Blue Marble still inspires

December 7 marks the 50-year anniversary of the Blue Marble photograph. The crew of NASA’s Apollo 17 spacecraft – the last manned mission to the Moon – took a photograph of Earth and changed the way we visualised our planet forever.

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48 jaw-dropping James Webb Space Telescope photos

From black holes and baby stars to familiar solar system planets, the universe has never looked more glorious thanks to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

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NASA once again declines to rename the James Webb Space Telescope

NASA says an extensive review of historical records found no evidence that Webb ever led or supported purges of government employees who were gay. But some astronomers think that's a pretty low bar.

WEKU

'Mothvodka' and 'Unawaregiraffe' ran major EncroChat drug gang

Key players were found to be using handles "Mothvodka" and "Unawaregiraffe"

Liverpool Echo

James Webb Space Telescope captures dazzling 'galaxy merger' 270 million light-years away

NASA says the merging galaxies "may well be in the process of forming a supermassive black hole".

ABC News

Earth's oxygen has varied dramatically over time – here's how our data could help us spot alien life

Are we alone in the universe? This is a question that has intrigued humans for centuries and inspired countless studies and works of fiction. But are we getting closer to finding this out? Now that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is in operation, we might have taken one giant…

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NASA releases detailed views of DART mission smashing into asteroid from James Webb, Hubble telescopes

NASA's James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have captured views of the DART spacecraft intentionally smashing into an asteroid in a mission trialling technology for protecting Earth from potential asteroid collisions.

ABC News

James Webb Telescope captures detailed new images of stars being born in Tarantula Nebula

It's hoped the detailed, infrared images will give astronomers new insight into how stars are formed.

ABC News

James Webb helps to untangle the mysteries of the Tarantula Nebula

At a mere 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Tarantula Nebula is the largest and brightest star-forming region in the Local Group, as scientists comfortingly call the galaxies nearest our Milky Way. The cloud is home to the hottest, most massive stars known. James Webb has sent…

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NASA’s James Webb telescope captures first image of planet outside Milky Way

For the first time, astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to capture an image of a gas giant outside our galaxy

The Hindu

Look! The James Webb Space Telescope's first exoplanet image is finally here

NASA just released the James Webb Space Telescope's first infrared images of an exoplanet, and it could shed light on how solar systems evolve.

Inverse

Quiz: Test your knowledge on what happened in the news this week

From Notting Hill Carnival to Game of Thrones spin-offs – how closely have you been following?

Evening Standard

James Webb telescope gives a stunning look at galaxies far, far away

What the telescope’s incredible images show about how it operates – and the universe itself

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Wednesday briefing: The telescope revealing the secrets of the universe

In today’s newsletter: After the James Webb space telescope sends extraordinary images of Jupiter, astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst explains why it’s so important

Edinburgh Live

Inside Edinburgh's Royal Observatory where scientists look for signs of life on other planets

A team in Edinburgh are behind the most groundbreaking and scientifically important images captured of our universe to date. The Edinburgh Royal Observatory team talks about the James Webb Space Telescope, early STEM education, and Scottish innovation in an exclusive tour and interview.

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Is the James Webb Space Telescope finding the furthest, oldest, youngest or first galaxies? An astronomer explains

We’ve now seen the first data from the James Webb Space Telescope. It has observed the atmospheres of distant planets, groups of nearby galaxies, galaxy light bent by unseen dark matter, and clouds of gas and dust in stellar nurseries.

Inverse

The Webb Telescope could unlock the search for life by studying inhospitable hot Jupiters

NASA recently explained why the James Webb Space Telescope is honing in on “Hot Jupiter” exoplanets like WASP-121b.

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The Webb Telescope will drop everything to observe the next interstellar object

In 2017 and 2018, scientists spotted the first two interstellar objects ever recorded in our Solar System. JWST could tell us more about them.

The Hindu

Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: on James Webb Space Telescope

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The new science coming from the James Webb telescope has astronomers giddy

In the week since the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope were unveiled, astronomers have been poring through all the observations it's made so far--and they're happily overwhelmed.

The Conversation

Will NASA rename the James Webb Space Telescope? A space expert explains the Lavender Scare controversy

The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope are astounding. With its deep infrared eyes, the telescope is illuminating regions of the Universe with never-before-possible clarity.

Inverse

The Webb Telescope’s search for life in space may take longer than expected

The James Webb Space Telescope will investigate the TRAPPIST-1 system in its first cycle of research programs.

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To search for alien life, astronomers will look for clues in the atmospheres of distant planets – and the James Webb Space Telescope just proved it's possible to do so

The ingredients for life are spread throughout the universe. While Earth is the only known place in the universe with life, detecting life beyond Earth is a major goal of modern astronomy and planetary science.

Wales Online

Who was James Webb? The controversial figure who gives his name to Nasa's new space telescope

Astronomers hope the $10 billion flagship project will help us better understand the universe. Here's how the James Webb Space Telescope got its name.

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