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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with the consistency of marshmallow and an atmosphere decorated with rising "gemstone" formations. The breakthrough mapping technique reveals how the scorching hot world's atmosphere shifts dramatically between its eternal day and night sides.
For the first time, scientists watched clouds shift and thicken on a freezing world just 7.5 light-years from Earth. The James Webb Space Telescope spent 11 hours tracking actual weather patterns on a brown dwarf colder than Antarctica.
Scientists just solved a cosmic mystery by tracing the universe's most distant fast radio burst back to a surprisingly tiny galaxy. The discovery could finally explain one of space's most puzzling phenomena.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope just solved a cosmic mystery 11 billion light-years away, revealing clues about mysterious radio flashes that could rewrite what we know about exploding stars. The discovery points to young stars, not ancient collisions, as the likely source.
Scientists discovered something once thought impossible: a Jupiter-sized planet forming around a dead star, rewriting what we know about planetary systems. The breakthrough came from 25-year-old telescope data that a doctoral student finally decoded.
A South Korean astronomer just answered one of space science's oldest questions: how the building blocks of planets traveled through our early solar system. Her discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope earned her the nation's top monthly science honor.
NASA's Webb Telescope just pulled back the cosmic curtain on a stellar nursery, revealing dozens of baby stars that were completely invisible until now. The breathtaking images show stars at every stage of life, from newborns to adolescents, teaching us how our own Sun began.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have decoded weather patterns on a distant brown dwarf for the first time, revealing organized storm systems on a world bigger than Jupiter. The breakthrough method could help us find habitable planets beyond our solar system.
Scientists used artificial intelligence to transform 116 telescope images spanning nearly three decades into the highest-resolution video ever made of a black hole jet shooting through space. The breakthrough could revolutionize how astronomers study cosmic phenomena.
The James Webb Space Telescope caught five galaxies colliding when the universe was barely 800 million years old, rewriting what we thought about how galaxies form. The discovery could finally explain one of Webb's biggest mysteries.
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A telescope still under construction accidentally captured something astronomers have struggled to see for decades: a dying star's materials spreading back into space to form new worlds. The image shows exactly how stars give their building blocks back to the universe.
The James Webb Space Telescope just discovered that the universe's first galaxies contain way more stars than we ever knew. Hidden among the bright giants are countless smaller stars we simply couldn't see before.