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James Webb Space Telescope finds a 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet that defies expectations

The atmospheres of gas giant planets across the Milky Way galaxy can be very different from those in the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope has found.

Space

James Webb Space Telescope finds no atmosphere on Earth-like TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet

New measurements by the James Webb Space Telescope found that a rocky exoplanet orbiting a star known as TRAPPIST-1 most likely has no atmosphere.

Space

Swirling hot sand clouds have been detected on a distant planet

SWIRLING hot sand clouds have been detected on a distant planet by Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope.

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James Webb Space Telescope spies hot, gritty clouds in skies of huge exoplanet with 2 suns

JWST just peered directly into the atmosphere of the giant exoplanet VHS 1256 b and found a roiling world with turbulent clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth.

Space

Monster black hole may have killed this galaxy's star-forming power, James Webb Telescope reveals

New James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal that the galaxy GS-9209 had its star-forming power abruptly “quenched” by mysterious forces after millions of years of productivity.

Space

Rare and beautiful image of dying star captured on James Webb space telescope

Shimmering in purple like a cherry blossom, the cast-off material once comprised the star's outer layer. It was one of the first made by the telescope when it launched in 2021

Daily Mirror

Radio interference from satellites is threatening astronomy – a proposed zone for testing new technologies could head off the problem

Visible light is just one part of the electromagnetic spectrum that astronomers use to study the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope was built to see infrared light, other space telescopes capture X-ray images, and observatories like the Green Bank Telescope, the Very Large Array, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array…

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Webb sees galaxies that shouldn't exist

Six objects in a new photograph appear to be massive galaxies whose existence is impossible based on what we know

Salon

Space Telescope Uncovers Massive Galaxies near Cosmic Dawn

Astronomers have discovered what appear to be massive galaxies dating back to within 600 million years of the Big Bang, suggesting the early universe may have had a stellar fast-track that produced these “monsters.” While the new James Webb Space Telescope has spotted even older galaxies, dating to within a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘We just discovered the impossible': how giant baby galaxies are shaking up our understanding of the early Universe

“Look at this,” says Erica’s message. She is poring over the very first images from the brand new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

The Conversation

What's the fairest way to share cosmic views from Hubble and James Webb telescopes?

Astronomers are debating how quickly the observations of the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope should be made public.

WEKU

A hymn to the stars: what happens when science puts the universe into music

A little over six months ago, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) delivered its first photographs, dazzling the world as it revealed the cosmos in glorious technicolour. The first picture transmitted in July showed a galaxy cluster located in the Southern hemisphere sky, 5.12 billion light years from Earth. In…

The Conversation

Tech & Science Daily podcast: Space telescope reveals secrets of how stars formed

With ESA Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope...

Evening Standard

NASA's busiest year in decades – an astronomer sums up the dizzying array of missions in 2022

NASA had a banner year in 2022, with many successful missions in what was one of the organization’s most active years in decades.

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James Webb Space Telescope images offer insight into universe’s beginnings

Images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope offer insight into what a much younger universe may have looked like.

Daily Mirror

NASA's James Webb discovers its first ever planet - and it's similar to Earth

The first ever planet discovered by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is located around 41 light-years away and could be similar to Earth, according to scientists

Inverse

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.

Inverse

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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Asharq Al-Awsat

Webb Telescope Promises New Age of the Stars

The James Webb Space Telescope lit up 2022 with dazzling images of the early universe after the Big Bang, heralding a new era of astronomy and untold revelations about the cosmos in years to come. The most powerful observatory sent into space succeeded the Hubble telescope, which is still operating,…

The Conversation

Five space exploration missions to look out for in 2023

It’s been an eventful year for space exploration, with successes including the completion of Nasa’s Artemis 1 mission (finally), the inauguration of the James Webb Space Telescope, and the completion of China’s Tiangong space station.

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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.

The Conversation

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.

Daily Mirror

Seven planet solar system in 'habitable range' viewed by James Webb telescope

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has viewed a system of seven planets that orbit the TRAPPIST-1 planet which are 39 light years from Earth and could be habitable

The Conversation

How the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a surprisingly bright, complex and element-filled early universe – Podcast

If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans everywhere, the world has one – the James Webb Space Telescope.

The Conversation

‘Extreme stripping action’ led to the messy birth of the Southern Ring Nebula, Webb image reveals

When the first five images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) were unveiled, one of them stared at me with two eyes. It was an image of the Southern Ring Nebula, NGC3132, and smack in the middle were two bright stars.

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