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James Webb Space Telescope finds smallest asteroids ever seen between Mars and Jupiter

By reverse-engineering James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) exoplanet data, a team of astronomers just spotted dozens of tiny asteroids — including the smallest ever seen in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.

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4K James Webb Space Telescope Snaps 90,000 Light-Year Wreath

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy NGC 7469, which is 90,000 light-years in diameter. The galaxy is "roughly 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus,

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James Webb Space Telescope Uncovers ‘Firefly Sparkle’

Mowla, who spotted the galaxy in Webb’s image, was drawn to its gleaming star clusters, because objects that sparkle typically indicate they are extremely clumpy and complicated. Since the galaxy looks like a ‘sparkle’ or swarm of fireflies on a warm summer night, they named it the Firefly Sparkle galaxy.

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NASA's James Webb Telescope Reveals Universe Expanding Faster Than Thought

The rate of expansion of the universe today is a figure known as the Hubble constant, which is typically measured in units of ...

'We know so little': Bizarre 'runaway' planets discovered by James Webb telescope may be failed stars in disguise

A new theory explains how dozens of mysterious planet pairs discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, dubbed "JuMBOs," ...

Firefly Sparkle: Webb telescope 'weighs' a galaxy for the first time

Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, this galaxy existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang and gleams with 10 distinct star ...

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Day 12 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar

This mid-infrared image of colliding galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 from the James Webb Space Telescope shows two large ...

'Eight billion bucks or bust': From pirates to 'stupid mistakes' — the wild story of how James Webb Space Telescope almost failed to launch

"Budget overruns, bureaucratic malfeasance, congressional oversight, review-board reckonings, the whole process of ...

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Spiderweb protocluster is filled with baby galaxies, James Webb Space Telescope reveals (image)

"We are observing the build-up of one the largest structures in the universe, a city of galaxies in construction." ...

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Cracks in cosmological theory: James Webb telescope is challenging what we know about the universe

When the James Webb Telescope came online in 2021, it promised to give a clearer picture of the universe that could help ...

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New Webb Telescope Discovery Challenges Cosmic Theory

Recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) challenge the previously held cosmic theory on the universe's ...

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'Our understanding of the universe may be incomplete': James Webb Space Telescope data suggests we need a 'new cosmic feature' to explain it all

Hubble was right!' The largest cosmic survey from the James Webb Space Telescope indicates scientists may need another ...

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