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James Webb Space Telescope's stunning first deep field image

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 from the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI | ...
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The James Webb Telescope just caught a supermassive black hole already growing inside a galaxy a mere 570 million years after the Big Bang — forcing astronomers to rethink ...

When the light from galaxy CEERS_1019 finally reached the James Webb Space Telescope’s detectors, it had been traveling for more than 13 billion years. What it revealed stunned the team analyzing it: ...

‘A Paradigm Shift’: Supermassive Black Hole Without a Galaxy Changes What We Thought Came First

Scientists have long thought that galaxies evolved first, while the black holes at their center formed after from the collapse of large stars. Recent observations by Webb, however, tell a different ...
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Scientists detect thin atmosphere around 2002 XV93, 2nd beyond Neptune

Scientists have detected an extremely thin atmosphere around 2002 XV93, a Trans Neptunian Object in the Kuiper Belt, making it only the second such discovery after Pluto.

This distant planet has wild weather and gemstone clouds

For many astronomers and astrophysicists there are two distinct, important periods: before the James Webb Space Telescope – and after. It has powered many scientific discoveries since it came online, ...

The astronomer named the constellations suitable for observations in June

In June, residents of the Northern Hemisphere in the south and southwest will be able to see the constellations of Volopas, ...