James Webb Space Telescope
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By Samantha Mathewson Published
Astronomers have spotted a distant world "shedding" its atmosphere into space in real time, creating a giant cloud of helium gas that sweeps across its parent star well before the planet itself.

By Paul Sutter Published
The astronomers estimate that this galaxy will deplete itself of gas in only a few hundred million years.

By Keith Cooper Published
The unique system features two rare Wolf-Rayet stars, and a supergiant companion that is interrupting the flow of the dust shells that the two Wolf-Rayet stars cast off.

By Keith Cooper Published
The molecules are building blocks of the chemical precursors of things such as RNA.

By Tereza Pultarova Published
An ultra-high-resolution instrument on board NASA's $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has been suffering from blurry vision. AI helped fix the problem.

By Monisha Ravisetti Published
A new James Webb Space Telescope image showcases the gorgeous Red Spider Nebula against a backdrop of twinkling stars.

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry Published
A compilation of various images from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the effects of gravitational lensing caused by dark matter.

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry Published
This quiz is your chance to explore the wonders of the James Webb Space Telescope, from its mind-blowing discoveries to the science behind its design.

By Sharmila Kuthunur Published
Astronomers using JWST have captured the clearest view yet of a doomed red supergiant star just before it exploded, solving a decades-old mystery about why such stars rarely appear to go supernova.

By Keith Cooper Published
JWST's detection of phosphine on a brown dwarf, also known as a "failed star," could have repercussions for the claimed detection of the molecule on Venus.
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