James Webb telescope could find signs of life on alien 'hycean' ocean worlds
Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...
Webb telescope just snapped direct image of worlds many light-years away
It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...
Webb Telescope Captures First Direct Evidence of Carbon Dioxide on an Exoplanet
In 2022, the Webb telescope detected unequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called WASP-39b. But that detection was made indirectly, so the latest ...
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James Webb Space Telescope Reveals That Most Galaxies Rotate Clockwise
This preferred direction of spin might be due to one of two reasons: either our entire universe exists in a black hole, or ...
James Webb Telescope discovers mysterious free-floating planet drifting through space
Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...
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This astronomer found a sneaky extra star in James Webb Space Telescope data
As Bajaj puts it: "These James Webb Space Telescope data sets are so beautiful." ...
Star-Mapping Space Telescope Gaia Sent Into 'Retirement Orbit'
After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into retirement ...
Gaia Telescope To Be Switched Off Today! ESA Prepares To Send It Into 'Retirement Orbit'
The Milky Way-mapper Gaia telescope is being switched off today. The European Space Agency (ESA) said on March 27 that Gaia's ...
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First direct image of CO2 outside our solar system captured by Webb
NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.