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Webb Telescope Spots Carbon on Jupiter’s Moon Europa, Boosting Prospects for Alien Life
The Webb Space Telescope has made its latest significant discovery: the observation of carbon dioxide coming from a part of Europa, the frozen moon orbiting Jupiter which harbors a salty water ocean under its icy surface. The finding is a boost for astrobiology, or the search for life beyond Earth. Carbon is critical for life…
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Webb Telescope Spots Eye-Shaped Supernova With a Messy Filling
The Webb Space Telescope recently imaged Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), one of the brightest supernovae in the night sky and the nearest observed in centuries, according to NASA. The image spans 8.5 light years and was taken in September 2022, but was only published today. It is composed of several exposures taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared…
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Galaxy Spotted By Webb Space Telescope is One of the Earliest Ever Seen
A galaxy first seen in a massive Webb Space Telescope deep field image a year ago is one of the earliest ever spotted, according to a team of astronomers that reviewed imagery of the structure. The galaxy dates to about 390 million years after the Big Bang (For reference, the universe as a whole is…
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Cosmic Question Mark Spotted in Deep Space Suggests the Universe Is Stumped
The James Webb Space Telescope captured the eerie punctuation mark, found buried within an image of Herbig-Haro 46/47—a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars located 1,470 light years from Earth. The high-resolution near-infrared image, captured by the Webb Space Telescope, a project from NASA in collaboration with the European Space Agency and the Canadian…