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James Webb Space Telescope images bacteria-size dust grains — they'll likely turn into exoplanets
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
The James Webb Space Telescope's new image spotlights dust grains in a distant protoplanetary disk, allowing astronomers to study how planets are formed in intricate detail.
![NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in its deployed form as seen in an artist's illustration.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/z8sf5yaERm5hCoeAaikmSX-320-80.jpg)
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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Webb Space Telescope's 'big sky images' issued on stamps in Big Sky, Montana
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
The unobstructed skies that gave Big Sky, Montana its name made for an appropriate setting for the release of two postage stamps depicting vistas visible to the James Webb Space Telescope.
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3 years of James Webb Space Telescope data on alien worlds now available online
By Robert Lea published
The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just three years. A new project celebrates its impact on the study of exoplanets, worlds beyond the solar system.
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Step inside a virtual reality art piece inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope
By Stefanie Waldek published
Ashley Zelinskie's VR artwork Twin Quasar was inspired by the iconic deep-space image from the James Webb Space Telescope that introduced a new audience to gravitational lensing.
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Fastest disintegrating world ever seen 'spills its guts' for NASA's exoplanet hunter
By Robert Lea published
NASA's TESS exoplanet hunter has found the fastest-disintegrating planet ever. Losing a moons-worth of matter every million years, it is a prime target for the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Centuries-old supernova guides James Webb Space Telescope through an interstellar gap
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the first exquisite images of an interstellar patch of sky, about 11,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.
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James Webb Space Telescope watches planet-forming dust shells zooming through space
By Keith Cooper published
The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second.
![Against a dark backdrop of space, speckled with bright dots representing hundreds of galaxies, a giant reddish splotch at the center depicts an active region of star formation.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/o97epc4Gd2YzPGvzXx3UbZ-320-80.jpg)
Are James Webb Space Telescope images really so colorful?
By Rebecca Sohn published
How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?
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James Webb Space Telescope sees little red dots feeding black holes: 'This is how you solve a universe-breaking problem'
By Robert Lea published
The James Webb Space Telescope's ancient "little red dot" galaxies have been seen as a sign of "broken cosmology." Feeding supermassive black holes may have come to the rescue.
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