James Webb Space Telescope

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Galaxy wit bright star appearing in the foreground.
Webb Space Telescope photographs weird galaxy that not only looks “unusual,” but behaves oddly too

By Alan Palazon Published

News Astronomers think that Arp 263, an “irregular” galaxy located 25 million light-years from Earth, is the result of a past galactic merger, responsible for its “distorted” shape

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Illustration of Roman Space telescope in space.
NASA launches astronomical wide-angle lens into space – what will the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope capture, and how does it differ from James Webb and Hubble?

By Alan Palazon Published

News The observatory will have a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble’s, acting as a wide-angle lens snapping vast swaths of the night sky, to help unravel mysteries of dark energy and exoplanets

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Lion Nebula.
James Webb telescope captures stunning image of Lion Nebula in spellbinding detail

By Alan Palazon Published

News The space telescope captured infrared images of the unfathomably beautiful dying star, rendering it in magenta and cyan colors, and a previously unseen level of detail

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Galaxy.
Astronomers perplexed by new James Webb Space Telescope photos unveiling secrets of a galaxy 11 million light-years away

By Alan Palazon Published

News The images shed light on the galaxy’s past and colorful stars that other telescopes couldn’t in what the dumbfounded astronomers are calling a case of “galactic archaeology”

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An Insta360 Titan 11K camera went silent at the edge of space – the rescue story revealed

By Adam Juniper Published

News Years of prep for one mission: Insta360 helped build an 11K Titan 360 camera for space – then lost contact with it...

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A spiral galaxy with scale lines drawn on it.
"We've been waiting for this to happen." For the first time, NASA scientists detected what happens before a supernova explodes – and it's all thanks to old photos

By Alan Palazon Published

NEWS Researchers used James Webb Telescope images to identify the star, which went supernova 40 million years ago

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A space telescope under construction in a NASA lab.
NASA to launch new space telescope with “mind-boggling” 288MP camera

By Alan Palazon Published

News The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in May 2027 with a 288MP camera, will “unveil the cosmos to the edge of the observable universe”

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An orange glow of a potential new planet surrounding the blue dust rings of an star
This photograph captures a previously undiscovered planet – and scientists are hopeful it's the first of many the James Webb Telescope could uncover

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

NEWS The James Webb Telescope has photographed what appears to be an undiscovered planet, previously obscured by dust and starlight

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The hidden intricacies of Messier 106 spiral galaxy
Mesmerizing James Webb Space Telescope photo lets you gaze into a hungry black hole

By Chris George Published

News European Space Agency releases new photograph of the Messier 106 spiral galaxy

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared view of interacting galaxies Arp 142 seems to sing in primary colors. The Egg shows up as a tiny, teal-colored oval, because it is made up of old stars and has lost or used up most of its gas and dust. At right, the Penguin’s star-forming regions are represented in pink and purple, and contain smoke-like material known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Photograph of the Penguin Galaxy chasing the Egg commemorates second space anniversary of the James Webb Space Telescope

By Leonie Helm Published

News The stunning image is of the two galaxies on their fixed collision path, that will one day become a single entity

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