The first scientific results are coming in, and the $10 billion instrument is working even better than astronomers had dared to hope.
Tag: James Webb Space Telescope
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Webb Telescope Captures New View of ‘Pillars of Creation’
The NASA space observatory’s infrared eye finds out what’s going on within the cloudy cosmic nursery.
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See Images of Neptune Come Into Focus With Webb Telescope
New images from the space-based observatory offer a novel view of the planet in infrared.
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The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting
There are an estimated 100 billion galaxies in the universe, home to an unimaginable abundance of planets. And now there are new ways to spot signs of life on them.
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Webb Telescope’s New Jupiter Images and an Expanded Universe
As new images of Jupiter and a galactic survey spring forth from NASA’s new observatory, our cosmic affairs correspondent confesses he didn’t anticipate their power.