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NASA’s Webb telescope detects carbon dioxide in exoplanet’s atmosphere

NASA’s Webb telescope detects carbon dioxide in exoplanet’s atmosphere

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first-ever clear evidence of the presence of carbon dioxide in a distant planet’s atmosphere. The planet named WASP-39b is orbiting a Sun-like star and is around 700 light years away from us and was originally discovered back in 2011. The latest discovery gives insights into the planet’s […]

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The lonely work of picking the universe’s best astronomy pictures

The lonely work of picking the universe’s best astronomy pictures

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After the image flashes up on the projector, a few quiet beats tick by, punctuated only by a soft “wow.” Everyone is processing. Then more “wows” bubble out, and people are talking over one another, laughing. Suddenly two astronomers, Amaya Moro-Martin and Karl Gordon, are out of their chairs, sticking their noses closer to the […]

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope gives closer look at Jupiter’s rings

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope gives closer look at Jupiter’s rings

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After giving a closer look at the distant universe, NASA has released images of Jupiter, its moons and asteroids taken from the James Webb Space Telescope. In an official statement, NASA said that the new data includes images of Jupiter and images and spectra of several asteroids. The images give a clearer look at Jupiter […]

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NASA’s new telescope shows star death, dancing galaxies

NASA’s new telescope shows star death, dancing galaxies

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NASA on Tuesday unveiled a new batch of images from its new powerful space telescope, including a foamy blue and orange shot of a dying star. The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope was released Monday at the White House — a jumble of distant galaxies that went deeper into the […]

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NASA’s first image of Galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 from James Webb Space Telescope: 5 points to note

NASA’s first image of Galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 from James Webb Space Telescope: 5 points to note

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NASA and US President Joe Biden have officially unveiled the first image of the distant universe taken from the James Webb Space Telescope. This is what NASA calls the “deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date.” The US space agency will reveal more images later tonight. Here are quick five points […]

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He fixed NASA’s giant space telescope, reluctantly

He fixed NASA’s giant space telescope, reluctantly

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In 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope, the beleaguered project to build an instrument that could gaze back to the earliest stars in the universe, appeared to be going off the rails. Again. The pieces of the telescope and its instruments were complete, but they needed to be assembled and tested. The launch date was […]

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Biden and NASA share first image of universe taken from James Webb space telescope

Biden and NASA share first image of universe taken from James Webb space telescope

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In a brief event at the White House on Monday evening, President Joe Biden unveiled an image that NASA and astronomers hailed as the deepest view yet into our universe’s past. The image, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope — the largest space telescope ever built — showed a distant patch of sky in […]

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NASA to release ‘deepest image of universe ever’ taken with James Webb Space Telescope

NASA to release ‘deepest image of universe ever’ taken with James Webb Space Telescope

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Ahead of NASA’s release of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-colour images and spectroscopic data, we may finally have hints of what the first few operational images will look like. The first pictures from the $10 billion-dollar deep-space observatory will include “the deepest image of our universe that has ever been taken,” according to […]

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