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Aaron Leong - Thu, Sep 25, 2025
The ever-busy James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently turned its gaze toward the core of our galaxy and revealed unprecedented details of the largest and most active stellar nursery nestled within. Webb's target, the massive Sagittarius...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Sep 15, 2025
A team of Pennsylvania State University researchers has a unique take on mysterious red dots first observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. Initially thought to be tiny, crimson galaxies, the red dots are now proposed to be a new and...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Sep 09, 2025
Fresh data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has provided new clues about the nature of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e, a rocky world located just 40 light-years from Earth. Even if researchers have yet to definitively confirm it...
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Aaron Leong - Wed, Aug 13, 2025
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found a dozen dormant (or affectionately called “sleeping beauty”) galaxies, which are ancient galaxies that have mysteriously stopped forming stars. The surprise isn't just that they’re dormant, but...
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Aaron Leong - Fri, Aug 08, 2025
NASA's very productive James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found compelling evidence for a new planet in the Alpha Centauri star system, our closest stellar neighbor. This potential gas giant, located just four light-years away, appears...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Aug 04, 2025
In early 2004, the Hubble Space Telescope (which turned 30 this year) gained iconic status by giving us the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF): a window into the early cosmos showcasing 10,000 of galaxies in one of the most in-depth...
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Aaron Leong - Fri, Jul 18, 2025
In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have, for the first time, observed the formation of a new solar system. Using a combination of data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile and the James Webb...
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Jun 26, 2025
This week NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provided the first direct image of a planet with a mass similar to Saturn's, orbiting the young star TWA 7. This landmark observation, detailed in the Nature journal, not only marks Webb's...
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Apr 17, 2025
With the aid of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have found compelling evidence that biological life is present and active on a planet called K2-18b, located some 124 light years from Earth. The team was able to...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 16, 2025
Most of us will never live long enough to see the kind of deep space travel depicted in shows like "Star Trek" become a reality, but in lieu of such sci-fi adventures, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to snap incredible...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 27, 2025
It only took some 417 years since the invention (if going by patent filings) of the telescope to finally see Neptune's auroras, and it's thanks to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST (the same telescope that provided a crystal clear...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Feb 05, 2024
NASA says that it has found a “super-Earth” that is only 137 light-years away, and the same system may hold a second, Earth-sized planet. The larger of the two exoplanets, named TOI-715 b, is roughly one and a half times wider than...
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Nov 16, 2023
European astronomers using data gleaned from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found an exoplanet that not only has water vapor and sulfur dioxide in its atmosphere, but also silicate clouds that eventually falls as sand rain. Not...
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Brittany Goetting - Mon, Jan 03, 2022
The sunshield of the James Webb Space Telescope is nothing if not impressive. It is an essential part of the telescope and it is therefore important to guarantee it is working correctly. NASA is not quite ready to tension the sunshield...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Dec 27, 2021
Update (12/27/21):
Now that the James Webb Telescope has successfully left Earth to go make all kinds of cool discoveries, we can track its progress in real-time with a nifty dashboard showing its progress as it zooms through space. Here...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Dec 24, 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is one of NASA's most highly anticipated missions. Teams of scientists and astronomers are incredibly anxious to begin receiving the telescope's highly advanced data and imagery back here on Earth...
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