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JWST spies frigid alien world on bizarre orbit: 'One of the coldest, oldest and faintest planets that we've imaged to date'
The James Webb Space Telescope has notched another milestone, capturing a direct image of one of the coldest and oldest known ...
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Nanometer Precision in a Vacuum – JWST’s Mirror Actuators Explained
Reaching nanometer precision in space isn’t just hard—it’s nearly impossible. But JWST’s flexure-driven actuators do it while surviving cryogenic temps, vacuum, and launch forces.
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James Webb telescope ups the odds that 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in 2032
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken another look at the potential "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 and found its chances ...
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Could our universe exist within a black hole?
Findings could imply that the Big Bang would no longer be an isolated event and suggest that every black hole in our universe ...
Webb sees the galaxies that cleared out the cosmic fog
Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made an exciting discovery about the early universe. They ...
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers smallest 'failed stars' ever seen
"The new brown dwarfs are the least massive known brown dwarfs. They place a new constraint on the lowest mass at which brown ...
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Pluto's hazy skies are making the dwarf planet even colder, James Webb Space Telescope finds
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's ...
1.5 TB of James Webb Space Telescope data just hit the internet
A NASA-backed project using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has released more than 1.5 TB of data for ...
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James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations over funding shortfalls
Inflation and budget issues are threatening to hobble NASA’s most in-demand telescopes.