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The James Webb telescope

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JWST reveals young star that may be about to give birth to a planet

Spectral information from the James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled chemicals inside a protostar that hint it is in the process of forming planets

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JWST found carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere – and a mystery

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JWST found carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere – and a mystery

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JWST's images of the cosmos should be for all, not just astronomers

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JWST's images of the cosmos should be for all, not just astronomers

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Webb NIRCam composite image of Jupiter from three filters ? F360M (red), F212N (yellow-green), and F150W2 (cyan) ? and alignment due to the planet's rotation.

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JWST has taken even more beautiful images of Jupiter and its aurora

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JWST has captured a sparkling galaxy full of intense star formation

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JWST has captured a sparkling galaxy full of intense star formation

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It's springtime and the deployed primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope looks like a spring flower in full bloom. In this photo, NASA technicians lifted the telescope using a crane and moved it inside a clean room at NASA?s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Once launched into space, the Webb telescope?s 18-segmented gold mirror is specially designed to capture infrared light from the first galaxies that formed in the early universe, and will help the telescope peer inside dust clouds where stars and planetary systems are forming today. The James Webb Space Telescope is the scientific successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built. Webb is an international project led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.

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Faint distant galaxies spotted by JWST may be closer than they appear

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IC 1623 is a pair of galaxies

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JWST has caught two galaxies smashing together and sparking starbursts

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JWST captures the most distant star ever seen in incredible detail

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The Cartwheel galaxy and its companion galaxies

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JWST has released a striking new image of the strange Cartwheel galaxy

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Galaxies in space

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JWST has spotted a weird, distant galaxy with almost no heavy elements

Galaxies in the distant universe are expected to have fewer heavy elements than nearby ones, but the James Webb Space Telescope has found a surprising one with almost none at all

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JWST could soon tell us what exoplanets' surfaces are made of

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JWST keeps breaking its own record for the most distant galaxy ever

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JWST finds galaxies may adopt Milky Way-like shape faster than thought

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

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