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James Webb Space Telescope watches distant galaxies form farthest cluster ever seen in the ancient universe (image)
By Robert Lea published
"JADES-ID1 is giving us new evidence that the universe was in a huge hurry to grow up."

James Webb Space Telescope reveals new origin story for the universe's 1st supermassive black holes
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
Recent James Webb Space Telescope data confirms a decade-old theory that the universe's earliest supermassive black holes formed without stars.

James Webb Space Telescope sees comet-seeding crystals flowing far from newborn star (photo)
By Samantha Mathewson published
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young star flinging heat-formed crystals outward on a cosmic conveyor belt, offering a new clue to how comets evolve.

This is the sharpest view ever seen of a black hole's dusty disk
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
"Instead of Webb's 6.5-meter diameter, it's like we are observing this region with a 13-meter space telescope."

James Webb Space Telescope finds 1st evidence of 'dinosaur-like' stars in the early universe
By Robert Lea published
"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a million years."

The James Webb Space Telescope just found the oldest supernova ever seen
By Keith Cooper published
The supernova exploded over 13 billion years ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Glowing bridge links dwarf galaxies in stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope
By Samantha Mathewson published
This infrared view offers the clearest look yet at how dwarf galaxies merge, evolve, trade gas and ignite waves of new stars.

A 'super-puff' exoplanet is losing its atmosphere, and the James Webb Space Telescope had a look
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.

James Webb Space Telescope spots a gassy baby galaxy throwing a tantrum in the early universe
By Paul Sutter published
The astronomers estimate that this galaxy will deplete itself of gas in only a few hundred million years.

James Webb Space Telescope captures 'one-of-a-kind' triple star system that looks like a cosmic embryo (image)
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.
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