NASA’s Webb Just Found Something Unexpected Beyond Neptune
Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...
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JWST Spies a Giant Space Hamburger—and Maybe Planetary Origins, Too
It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...
Wicked High-Definition Image of the Cosmic Web Shows the Universe’s Dark Matter Scaffolding
New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.
Witnessing the birth of planets: Webb telescope provides unprecedented view into PDS 70 system
Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...
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Spectacular celestial image of a newborn star's dust looks like a 1990s psychedelic rave flier
The James Webb Space Telescope captured this stunning image of the gas and dust around a newborn star in the constellation ...
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Skywatcher’s Guide: A profile of the giant Orion
With February’s winter nights regularly dropping below freezing, it’s tempting to take the easy way out and just stay inside.
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Fact-checking viral images appearing to show ICE arrests
Images appearing to show ICE arrests have gone viral online, including one of a young girl screaming during an interaction with an ICE agent. VERIFY reader Francisco asked us on Instagram if this ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
Infrared is the James Webb Space Telescope's speciality, and is in fact why the JWST has been so iconic in showing us things ... SPHEREx is intended to image the entire sky as seen from Earth.