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Space Telescope Science Institut / NASA, ESA, CSA, J. DePasquale The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a stunning new image of what scientists call a pair of actively forming stars. But ...

Astronomers have a lot of questions about the universe, and the universe, in turn, seems to have a question for astronomers. Or at least it has a question mark. The “Question Mark Pair” is what ...

This is a gravitationally lensed galaxy cluster observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. Any questions? Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Vicente Estrada-Carpenter Did the cosmos just hand us a ...

The internet had a lot of fun last year when eagle-eyed viewers spotted a galaxy that looked like a question mark in an image from the James Webb Space Telescope. Now, Webb has stumbled across another ...

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The red galaxy interacting with a spiral galaxy was magnified and distorted in an unusual way, which NASA said involved a "rare alignment between the galaxies, the lens, and the observer," known as a ...

When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured a recent image of two baby stars forming in a nearby system, scientists weren’t expecting anything out of the ordinary. But tucked away in the ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a stunning new image of what scientists call a pair of actively forming stars. But eagle-eyed viewers were quick to seize on an even tinier — and to ...