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The first shocking images of the new James Webb Space Telescope
On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...
How can the James Webb Space Telescope see so far?
How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...
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The James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Its First Direct Image Discovery of an Exoplanet
Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...
NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct image of an exoplanet
The James Webb telescope has captured some seriously cool direct images of a planet beyond our solar system. This is the ...
Eerie hidden world discovered by alien-hunting space telescope is first of its kind – and scientists nearly missed it
THE James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first-ever exoplanet – a distant world hidden by the glare of its nearest ...
NASA tests shrinking metals to help it find more exoplanets
Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...
NASA's James Webb Telescope discovers its first ever exoplanet
French experts have made an unprecedented discovery with NASA's James Webb Telescope after stumbling across an exoplanet ...