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How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...
About 60 per cent of the galaxies seemed to rotate clockwise. That contradicts the theory that galaxy rotations are random.
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The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...
One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...
Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...
Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.
The James Webb telescope has captured some seriously cool direct images of a planet beyond our solar system. This is the ...
For years, astronomers have been working to piece together the story of our universe, but the critical early chapters ...
The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured ...