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The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that forms a moon-forming disk of ...

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When you think of telescopes in space, you probably think of the Hubble Space Telescope and its younger, larger sibling, the ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a new view of a planet-forming disk within the Taurus star-forming region.

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With such extraordinary potential for our international standing in astronomy, the cost of ESO membership seems like a ...

The astronaut heard the noise during a mission in 2003, a sound that could not be explained at the time, and neither had it ...