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A pink disk of swirling gas and light is bisected by a glowing blue line of light

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."

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An illustration of a monster star in the early universe

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."

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A deep space image showing various colored stars and galaxies, with a boxout showing a supernova with the label GRB 250314A, in white text

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.

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A glowing cloud of red gas and dust mixed in with bright dots for stars in deep space

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.

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An illustration of a blue exoplanet with white stripes across it in the darkness of space

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.

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A swirl of green light around a series of white dots shows a young galaxy, with purple around the green lit bubble

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.

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A swirling blob of white light is surrounded by an orange bubble with purple and pink light around that

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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A blue and red cloud in space with spots for stars with two box outs on the right, the top one showing a green and brown molecule and the bottom showing a pixelated target shape with purple and yellow colors

JWST makes key detection of complex organic molecules around star in galaxy beyond our Milky Way

By Keith Cooper published

The molecules are building blocks of the chemical precursors of things such as RNA.

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A series of six images showing blurry photos with different colors at the top and streaks of light at the bottom

How AI fixed the James Webb Space Telescope's blurry vision

By Tereza Pultarova published

An ultra-high-resolution instrument on board NASA's $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has been suffering from blurry vision. AI helped fix the problem.

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A large planetary nebula. The nebula’s central star is hidden by a blotchy pinkish cloud of dust. A strong red light radiates from this area, illuminating the nearby dust. Two large loops extend diagonally away from the centre, formed of thin ridges of molecular gas, here coloured blue. They stretch out to the corners of the view. A huge number of bright, whitish stars cover the background, also easily visible through the thin dust layers.

James Webb Space Telescope spots the haunting Red Spider Nebula with 3-light-year-long legs

By Monisha Ravisetti published

A new James Webb Space Telescope image showcases the gorgeous Red Spider Nebula against a backdrop of twinkling stars.

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