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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in its deployed form as seen in an artist's illustration.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission — Live updates

By Robert Lea last updated

Read the latest news about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

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an extreme close-up of a purple world. To the left, the entire image is shrouded in shadow.

The James Webb Space Telescope is studying an exoplanet's eternal day — and eternal night

By Stefanie Waldek published

A tidally locked gas giant experiences eternal sunshine on one side, and eternal darkness on the other.

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Red, blue, and white specks of various sizes on a black background. In a black sqaure one of these dots is magnified to a red and blue line

Can the James Webb Space Telescope see galaxies over the universe's horizon?

By Robert Lea published

How can any telescope see a galaxy 33.8 billion light-years away in a universe that is only 13.8 billion years old?

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The James Webb Space Telescope deep field image showing some of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen.

Is the James Webb Space Telescope really 'breaking' cosmology?

By Paul Sutter published

While headlines around the world claimed that these galaxies were "breaking" our understanding of the Big Bang, the truth is much more nuanced — and much more interesting.

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A dark background of space has a shining galaxy view in front of it, sort of shaped like a penguin. There's a glowing white orb toward the bottom right, representing the "egg" galaxy.

Galactic penguin honors the 2nd anniversary of James Webb Space Telescope's 1st images

By Robert Lea published

To celebrate the second anniversary of the James Webb Space Telescope's first images, NASA has revealed a cosmic Penguin and Egg.

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A star-studded image with a large pillar of gas and dust rising through the center.

James Webb Space Telescope images: 16 astonishing views of our universe (gallery)

By Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

The James Webb Space Telescope is busy capturing incredible images of our universe. We take a look at some of the best ones here in our gallery.

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A blurry teal colored gas ring in black space features three bright shining orange orbs at its crown. A blue light dimly shines from the ring's center, and a paler small dot also shines on the right side of the image.

The James Webb Space Telescope finds a jeweled ring in the cosmos

By Samantha Mathewson published

A sparkling jeweled ring, created through a cosmic phenomenon called gravitational lensing, has been imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Two glowing blue arcs joined by a bright red smeared sphere.

Happy 4th of July! Infant star creates red, white and blue fireworks in new JWST image

By Robert Lea published

Just in time for Independence Day, the James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a red, white and blue fireworks display, courtesy of an infant star at the heart of a dense cloud of gas and dust.

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A rectangular image with black vertical rectangles at the bottle left and top right to indicate missing data. A young star-forming region is filled with wispy orange, red, and blue layers of gas and dust. The upper left corner of the image is filled with mostly orange dust, and within that orange dust, there are several small red plumes of gas that extend from the top left to the bottom right, at the same angle. The center of the image is filled with mostly blue gas. At the center, there is one particularly bright star, that has an hourglass shadow above and below it. To the right of that is what looks a vertical eye-shaped crevice with a bright star at the center. The gas to the right of the crevice is a darker orange. Small points of light are sprinkled across the field, brightest sources in the field have extensive eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of the Webb Telescope.

James Webb Space Telescope spies never-before-seen star behavior in distant nebula (video, photo)

By Stefanie Waldek published

A new James Webb Space Telescope image shows perfectly aligned protostellar outflows in the Serpens Nebula, supporting a long-running theory of stellar formation.

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an explosion of glue and green gasses with yellow orange fringes expands in the black of space.

Iconic Crab Nebula shines in gorgeous James Webb Space Telescope views (video, image)

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

The famous Crab Nebula gets a closeup from the James Webb Space Telescope.

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