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It’s alive! Japan’s lunar lander comes back to life and starts taking photos

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Japan’s historic Intelligent Moon Lander (SLIM) is back in operation ten days after making a soft landing on the Moon. Due to a minor...
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NASA’s Webb Findings Support Long-Proposed Process of Planet Formation

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Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just made a breakthrough discovery in revealing how planets are made. By observing...
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Webb Follows Neon Signs Toward New Thinking on Planet Formation

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Scientists are following neon signs in a search for clues to one planetary system’s future and...
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Webb Study Reveals Rocky Planets Can Form in Extreme Environments

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An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and other...
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Webb Captures Stellar Gymnastics in The Cartwheel Galaxy

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the...
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NASA’s Webb Catches Fiery Hourglass as New Star FormsNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the once-hidden features of the protostar within the dark cloud L1527, providing insight into the beginnings of a new star. These blazing clouds within the Taurus star-forming region are only visible in infrared light, making it an ideal target for Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). The protostar itself is hidden from view within the “neck” of this hourglass shape. An edge-on protoplanetary disk is seen as a dark line across the middle of the neck. Light from the protostar leaks above and below this disk, illuminating cavities within the surrounding gas and dust.

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the once-hidden features of the protostar within...
Read More Read More: NASA’s Webb Catches Fiery Hourglass as New Star FormsNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the once-hidden features of the protostar within the dark cloud L1527, providing insight into the beginnings of a new star. These blazing clouds within the Taurus star-forming region are only visible in infrared light, making it an ideal target for Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). The protostar itself is hidden from view within the “neck” of this hourglass shape. An edge-on protoplanetary disk is seen as a dark line across the middle of the neck. Light from the protostar leaks above and below this disk, illuminating cavities within the surrounding gas and dust.

Webb Detects Extremely Small Main Belt Asteroid

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An asteroid roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum — between 300 to 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) in length — has been detected by an...
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Webb Finds Water Vapor, But From a Rocky Planet or Its Star?

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Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study a rocky exoplanet known as GJ 486 b, and their observations using Webb’s...
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