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From James Webb to Euclid, here are top 10 most powerful space telescopes
The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...
The James Webb Telescope Images Explained
The most powerful telescope in history. The James Webb Space Telescope's "jewel-filled" photos are stunning. FBI says it's ...
Webb refines Bullet Cluster mass and maps dark matter distribution
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster—delivering highly detailed images that show a ...
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JWST's "Time Machine" Reveals the Formation of Galactic Disks
An international team of researchers has analyzed 111 JWST images of distant edge-on galaxies, or ones where the alignments ...
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The James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Its First Direct Image Discovery of an Exoplanet
Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...
GJ 12 b: Earth-sized planet orbiting a quiet M dwarf star
What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...
How can the James Webb Space Telescope see so far?
How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...