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How JWST changed astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the world’s second-largest space telescope, has spotted objects in the late universe that have not been seen before, scientists said. “We’ve found very early galaxies, and we’re looking into the very early universe for the first time,” they added. These objects may be galaxies or black holes obscured by…
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The first glimpse of the 7-planet system was provided by the JWST
Astronomers have found the most detailed information ever about an exoplanet, WASP-39b, which is orbiting a star called TRAPPIST-1b. The James Webb Space Telescope has detected carbon dioxide in the planet’s atmosphere for the first time. The atmosphere of WASP-39b also had sulphur dioxide in it. It is thought to have a thicker atmosphere than…
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NASA has a new version of the 1995 Hubble image of a star nursery.
NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope (J Webb) on Tuesday. The telescopes will be used to detect exoplanets, which are found in the close vicinity of Earth and have not been examined by space telescopes before. They’ll also look for dust and gas clouds that block the light coming from exoplanets. “It’s the world’s…
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A new view of the creation is captured by the telescope.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has recorded the first image of a star nursery, the ‘Pillars of Creation’. Scientists said that the images suggest that early galaxies have already developed well-organised structures out of many stars rather than being distorted or faint as previous studies with the Hubble Space Telescope suggested. “This field is design…
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Nature’s 10.
Astronomers who have studied the early universe with the James Webb Space Telescope have found that many galaxies formed so early that it has been a surprise that many of them formed so early. “That is challenging ideas of how galaxies formed early in the Universe,” said Jeyhan Kartaltepe, an astronomer at the Rochester Institute…
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Nature’s 10.
NASA has shared the first high-resolution image of Pillars of Creation from the James Webb Space Telescope. “We want to capture this image using the James Webb, after seeing a lot of demand,” a scientist working on the telescope wrote on social media. The image was captured in conjunction with an image from Hubble Space…