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James Webb Telescope Reveals Milky Way's Star-Forming Secrets

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured unprecedented images of Sagittarius B2, a star-forming region near the Milky Way's center, revealing details about gas, dust, and star formation.

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Oldest Confirmed Black Hole Discovered, Challenging Early Universe Theories

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy CAPERS-LRD-z9, formed 13.3 billion years ago (500 million years post-Big Bang), estimated at up to 300 million solar masses, confirmed via spectroscopy.

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Webb Telescope Reveals Star Formation in Cat's Paw Nebula

The James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam captured a detailed image of a cluster of forming stars within a substructure of the Cat's Paw Nebula (NGC 6334) located 4,000 light-years away in Scorpius, revealing new insights into the star formation process.

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JWST Directly Images Lowest-Mass Exoplanet

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged exoplanet TWA 7b, a Saturn-mass gas giant orbiting a star 110 light-years from Earth, marking the lowest-mass exoplanet directly observed and providing insights into a young planetary system.

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Gas Giant Found Orbiting Tiny Star Challenges Planet Formation Theories

An international team of astronomers discovered a gas giant planet, TOI-6894b, slightly larger than Saturn but half its mass, orbiting a small red dwarf star (TOI-6894) with only 20% of our sun's mass, challenging existing planet formation theories and highlighting the diversity of exoplanetary syst...

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Titan's Methane Clouds Confirmed: Evidence of Active Weather Cycle

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope and Keck II telescope reveal evidence of cloud convection in Titan's northern hemisphere, confirming a methane rain cycle that replenishes the moon's methane lakes and seas; this adds to previous data gathered by NASA's Cassini mission and Huygens...

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New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a previously unknown moon, S/2025 U1, orbiting Uranus, increasing the planet's known moon count to 29 and highlighting the need for further exploration of Uranus's ring system.

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Potential Exoplanet Discovery in Alpha Centauri System

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence of a Saturn-sized gas giant orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the closest star system to Earth, challenging our understanding of planet formation and opening avenues for future exploration.

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James Webb Telescope Reveals Active Star Formation in Cat's Paw Nebula

New James Webb Space Telescope images reveal an active star-forming region within a 'toe bean' of the Cat's Paw Nebula, located 4,000 light-years from Earth near Scorpius, showing young stars emitting blue light and carving away at gas and dust, while red spots indicate ongoing formation; this tempo...

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JWST Detects Oldest Known Galaxy, Challenging Big Bang Models

JWST confirmed the detection of galaxy MoM-z14, observed as it was 280 million years after the Big Bang, with a redshift of z=14.44, challenging existing models of galaxy formation due to its unexpectedly mature characteristics.

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James Webb Telescope Revolutionizes Understanding of Early Galaxy Formation

The James Webb Space Telescope's observations of unexpectedly bright and chemically mature galaxies 300 million years after the Big Bang challenge existing models of galaxy formation, necessitating significant updates to our understanding of the early universe.

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James Webb Telescope Confirms Water Ice in Sun-like Star's Debris Disk

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the presence of crystalline water ice in a debris disk orbiting the sun-like star HD 181327, 155 light-years from Earth; this 23-million-year-old star's system is analogous to our solar system's Kuiper Belt, suggesting common processes in planetary for...

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