The James Webb Telescope's gold mirrors aren’t just for looks—they’re a scientific marvel. Gold reflects up to 99% of infrared light, making it ideal for Webb’s cosmic observations. Unlike silver, ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint objects, called brown dwarfs, in the Flame Nebula. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / M. Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class of ...

Benjamin Pope receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Big Questions Institute. After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting ...

"Instead of sending astronauts to bolt on new parts, they managed to fix things with code." Telescope has been suffering from blurry vision. But a team of Australian researchers created an AI ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Imagine a camera so powerful it can see light from ...