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Webb scratches beyond the surface of the Cat's Paw for third anniversary
To mark its third year of highly productive science, astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to scratch ...
Celebrate the JWST's third anniversary with this stunning image
On July 11, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope finished its commissioning and commenced science operations. In the three ...
NASA’s SPHEREx Is Mapping the Infrared Universe in 102 Colors – And It’s All Public
SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...
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Webb Digs Deeper Into Cat's Paw for 3rd Anniversary
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James Webb Space Telescope celebrates 3 years of science with dazzling 'toe beans' image of Cat's Paw Nebula
The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of ...
Webb telescope discovers stars forming in 'toe beans' of Cat's Paw Nebula
The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...
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James Webb telescope reveals dizzying galaxies in the Bullet Cluster: Space photo of the week
This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...
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Astronomers say new interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is 'very likely to be the oldest comet we have ever seen'
However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...
Tuesday Telescope: Webb and Hubble team up to reveal spectacular star clusters
Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...
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Proposed New Star Could Finally Reveal the Form of Dark Matter
Don’t call them Duergar—they’re dark dwarfs. A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) proposes that the core of our galaxy is full of an all-new category of ...
Our solar system has a new mysterious visitor—what is it?
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
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A newly discovered interstellar object might predate the solar system
I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.