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Look! JWST captures images of an asteroid with a ring playing peek-a-boo with a star

Two separate studies recently pointed JWST's instruments at Chariklo, the only asteroid in our Solar System with its own rings.

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40 years ago, NASA launched the space telescope that proved JWST could work

IRAS is a sometimes forgotten spacecraft that proved that infrared astronomy had a bright future.

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JWST images turn up galaxy-sized sonic booms disrupting gas clouds in distant cluster

One of the James Webb Space Telescope's first color image targets has a turbulent inner life.

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Look! JWST image may upend our understanding of the early universe

Astronomers peered into a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image. From this view of the deep Universe, they saw a large number of ancient galaxy candidates.

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10 times this year the Webb telescope blew us away with new images of our stunning universe

It is no exaggeration to say the James Webb Space Telescope represents a new era for modern astronomy. Let's have a look at images that have demonstrated the staggering power of this new window to the universe.

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10 times this year the Webb telescope blew us away with new images of our stunning universe

It is no exaggeration to say the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a new era for modern astronomy.

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Inside NASA's monumental effort to deliver the first Webb Telescope images

JWST is the most powerful space telescope ever flown. Here's how researched created the gigantic scope's first products.

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Scientists confirm JWST has found the earliest galaxies yet seen

The galaxies formed less than 400 million years after the universe formed.

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Astronomers use Webb Telescope to detect hidden stars in the Southern Ring Nebula

Two stars are apparent at the center of the mesmerizing Southern Ring Nebula. But astronomers have uncovered three other hidden stars.

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Four ways to spot hints of alien life using the James Webb Space Telescope

The study of exoplanets, worlds which orbit stars other than our sun, is currently being transformed by the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). We will shortly gain our first insight into conditions on rocky, potentially Earth-like worlds beyond our solar system. One of these distant worlds might host life.…

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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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Wow! Webb Telescope finds a failed star with clouds made of sand

The clouds of the distant brown dwarf contain silicate material, making it a quite unusual atmospheric composition.

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NASA discovers a problem with one of the Webb Telescope’s most important instruments

One important mode used on the MIRI instrument on the massive telescope isn't working, and NASA is trying to assess if it can be fixed.

Inverse

The Webb telescope has released its very first exoplanet image – here's what we can learn from it

Did you ever want to see an alien world? A planet orbiting a distant star, light years from the Sun? Well, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just returned its first-ever picture of just that – a planet orbiting a distant star.

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Webb Telescope finds carbon dioxide in a hot Jupiter atmosphere — and it could aid the search for alien life

WASP-39b, a distant gas giant "hot Jupiter," shows signs of water vapor and carbon dioxide, helping Webb scientists hone in on how to find them on smaller planets.

ABC News

James Webb Space Telescope images reveal stunning galaxies, complex adolescent cosmos

The adolescent universe was much more complex than imagined, some of the first detailed snapshots of the early cosmos reveal.

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How the Webb Telescope could unveil the newborn universe

JWST will answer a lot of questions astronomers have been asking about the earliest epochs of the universe.

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How did supermassive black holes grow? Webb could reveal this key part of the early universe

The telescope will look into the regions surrounding these monsters like never before.

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

Test your science quotient with this quiz

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Webb Telescope to investigate rogue black hole on the lam from its galaxy

A black hole is speeding through space at several million miles per hour.

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How the James Webb Space Telescope's images are made

We can't see what the telescope see.

Salon

Webb sees water vapor on another planet

The telescope's precise measurements of exoplanet WASP-96b reveal water in the atmosphere. Could it host life?

The Hindu

Explained | What is the relevance of the recently released images from the James Webb Space Telescope?

With the release of its first five stunning images, the James Webb Space Telescope has demonstrated an acute observational capacity and revealed aspects of the cosmos hitherto hidden from other telescopes

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NASA's largest telescopes provide science and inspiration

Large telescopes like the JWST and the Hubble Space Telescope take on lives and personalities of their own.

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Biden unveils first full-color photo from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

This long-awaited milestone will set the stage for the rest of the $10 billion telescope's mission.

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