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James Webb Space Telescope Captures New Images of the Whirlpool Galaxy

Combining both the MIRI and NIRCam images into a composite photo reveals a rich tapestry of details, providing valuable insights into the interplay between stellar feedback and star formation in extragalactic environments.

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NASA's James Webb Telescope Captures New Stunning Images of the Ring Nebula

Roger Wesson from Cardiff University commented on the unprecedented level of detail in the images, revealing that the bright ring within the nebula is comprised of approximately 20,000 individual clumps of dense molecular hydrogen gas.

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James Webb Space Telescope Captures the Iconic Ring Nebula in Detail

Studying the Ring Nebula aids in understanding the future of our own sun. Stars similar in size to the sun eventually exhaust their nuclear fusion fuel and undergo a series of changes, leading to the expansion of the star's outer layers.

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James Webb Spots a Cosmic Question Mark in Deep Space

While the stars and their surrounding disk of material provide valuable insights into star formation, what has caught the attention of scientists and space enthusiasts alike is the object below them – resembling a giant cosmic question mark.

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James Webb Space Telescope Discovers the Earliest-Known Carbon Dust

This revelation challenges existing theories on the chemical evolution of the universe, as the detection suggests that galaxies formed and enriched with carbon much more rapidly than previously believed.

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James Webb Space Telescope Detects Water in a Rocky Planet-Forming Zone

The discovery of water vapor in PDS 70's planetary system opens up new avenues for understanding the formation of rocky planets and the presence of water in other star systems.

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Astronomers Detect the Most Distant Active Supermassive Black Hole

The JWST's data on CEERS 1019 and two other "lightweight" black holes, CEERS 2782 and CEERS 746, could revolutionize our understanding of cosmic history, revealing insights into how stars and galaxies formed and evolved.

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Netflix Released a Trailer for a New Documentary About James Webb Space Telescope

The documentary meticulously chronicles the JWST's journey, including its careful alignment, sunshield deployment, and eventual full operation. It captures rare deep field infrared images of galaxies, exoplanets, nebulae, and stellar nurseries.

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James Webb Space Telescope Shares the First Official Photo of Saturn

While the JWST is primarily designed to explore the universe's earliest stars and galaxies, the telescope has demonstrated its versatility by capturing breathtaking images of celestial objects within our own solar system.

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NASA Released Webb's New Image of a Small Star-Forming Region

The featured image reveals the nearest star-forming region to us, located 390 light-years away. Its proximity allows for an unprecedented close-up view, devoid of foreground stars that would otherwise obstruct the scene.

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James Webb Space Telescope Captures Images of All 4 Gas Giants

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of all four giant planets in our Solar System: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The telescope's observations in the near- and mid-infrared range have provided stunning views of these celestial bodies.

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James Webb Space Telescope Shares First Raw Images of Saturn

While the raw images of Saturn provide an intriguing preview of what's to come, the processing and analysis of the data will unlock valuable scientific information and offer a deeper understanding of this captivating planet and its celestial features.

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Scientists Discover a Gargantuan Geyser on Saturn's Moon

The eruption, observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in November 2022, was recently detailed at a conference held at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore on May 17.

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NASA's James Webb Telescope Captures New Images of Uranus

The so-called polar cap is clearly visible on the right side of the planet in the image. It appears when the pole is exposed to direct sunlight in the summer and disappears in the fall.

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NASA's Webb Telescope Spots Dust Storms on a Distant Exoplanet

Researchers proved that its swirling clouds are made up of silicate particles, ranging from tiny specks to small grains. The temperature of the atmosphere reaches 830 degrees Celsius (1,500 degrees Fahrenheit).

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Astronomers Discover a "Mirror Image" of the Milky Way from Billions of Years Ago

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a galaxy that looks very similar to our Milky Way in its early stages of evolution. It was named the Sparkler because almost two dozen glittering globular clusters orbit it.

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NASA's Webb Studied the Atmosphere of an Alien Exoplanet in Detail

The planet's atmosphere is composed of sulfur and silicates. When they interact with the parent star's light, they produce sulfur dioxide – this is the first time such a compound has been found in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.

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James Webb's New Image Shows the Early Days of Star Formation

The protostar is now hidden in an hourglass-shaped cloud of dust and gas, and it has yet to develop the ability to generate its own energy through nuclear fusion, like the Sun and other stars.

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James Webb Telescope Spotted Two Unusually Bright Galaxies from the Early Universe

The galaxies are extremely bright, and one of the reasons for this may be that they could have been very massive, with lots of low-mass stars. Or they could be much less massive, consisting of a smaller number of extremely bright Population III stars.

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The Webb Telescope Captures Mysterious Rings Around a Distant Star

Astronomer at NOIRLab and principal investigator of the project Ryan Lau confirmed that these rings are real, not an optical illusion. He promised that scientists would soon publish a full research paper explaining this phenomenon.

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NASA Reveals New Stunning Images of Jupiter Taken by the Webb Telescope

The images that show the planet's features in detail were taken by the Webb telescope's near-infrared camera (NIRCam). It can observe celestial bodies such as stars, nebulae, and planets that are too cold or too faint to be seen in visible light.

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NASA Shared the First Detailed Image of a Planet Outside Our Solar System

The exoplanet is located about 385 light years from Earth, and, according to various estimates, it is 6-12 times larger than Jupiter and is between 15 million and 20 million years old.

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James Webb Telescope Captures a Stunning View of Cartwheel Galaxy

Cartwheel is located at a distance of about 500 million light-years from Earth in the Sculptor constellation, and its estimated diameter is 150 thousand light-years.

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Astronomers Discover the Oldest Galaxy in the Universe

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the oldest galaxy in the universe – GLASS-z13. It is assumed that it was formed 300 million years after the Big Bang and is now 13.5 billion years old.

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James Webb Telescope Captured a New Image of Jupiter and Its Moons

The new image clearly shows the famous Great Red Spot, an Earth-sized storm that has been raging on the distant giant for centuries, and even some of the planet's thin rings.