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Earth's oxygen has varied dramatically over time – here's how our data could help us spot alien life

Are we alone in the universe? This is a question that has intrigued humans for centuries and inspired countless studies and works of fiction. But are we getting closer to finding this out? Now that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is in operation, we might have taken one giant…

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Alien megastructures? Cosmic thumbprint? What's behind a James Webb telescope photo that had even astronomers stumped

In July, a puzzling new image of a distant extreme star system surrounded by surreal concentric geometric rungs had even astronomers scratching their heads. The picture, which looks like a kind of “cosmic thumbprint”, came from the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s newest flagship observatory.

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James Webb Space Telescope reveals ‘fingerprint’ created by two stars

New images show rings which were created when the stars came close together and streams of gas they blew into space collided.

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Tired of Saturn's rings? Check out NASA's latest image of the bands around Neptune

The last time scientists caught such a clear glimpse of Neptune's rings was when Voyager 2 flew past the distant planet in 1989. Now the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a crisp new image.

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NASA reveals clearest image of Neptune and its rings in more than 30 years

The James Webb Space Telescope showed off its first ever image of the distant planet in the new batch of images which have not been captured since the NASA's Voyager 2 flyby in 1989

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James Webb finds: Jupiter and more

From bizarre distant gas giants to the intricate bands of Jupiter, this is what the Webb telescope has been up to

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Look! Stunning new Webb image of the Tarantula Nebula is an early Halloween treat

James Webb Space Telescope's newest infrared images reveal star formation in the Tarantula Nebula and may shed light on nebulae in the early universe.

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The Webb telescope has released its very first exoplanet image – here's what we can learn from it

Did you ever want to see an alien world? A planet orbiting a distant star, light years from the Sun? Well, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just returned its first-ever picture of just that – a planet orbiting a distant star.

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NASA telescope shares first image of planet outside of our solar system

The James Webb Space Telescope has shared its first image of a planet from beyond our solar system.

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PM defends COVID-19 isolation changes, James Webb Space Telescope takes its first exoplanet image, and an AI-generated artwork's controversial win — as it happened

The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happen.

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Look! The James Webb Space Telescope's first exoplanet image is finally here

NASA just released the James Webb Space Telescope's first infrared images of an exoplanet, and it could shed light on how solar systems evolve.

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Webb Telescope Finds CO2 for First Time in Exoplanet Atmosphere

The months-old James Webb Space Telescope has added another major scientific discovery to its growing list: detecting for the first time signs of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system. Although the exoplanet would never be able to support life as we know it, the…

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‘Remarkable’ new images of Jupiter captured by James Webb space telescope

Astronomers hope new images ofJupiter will uncover clues about the giant planet’s inner life

Evening Standard

Webb Telescope discovers an “amazing” galaxy from the edge of time

The James Webb Space Telescope just broke another record that could reveal the “dark ages” of space.

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French scientist says James Webb telescope sends back stunning picture of . . . a Spanish sausage!

A red ball of fire, glowing menacingly against a black background. This, prominent French scientist Etienne Klein declared, was the latest astonishing picture taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun. In fact, the object came from Klein's fridge!

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Stunning images of Cartwheel Galaxy captured by James Webb Space Telescope

NEW images from the James Webb Space Telescope have been released.

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Inside Edinburgh's Royal Observatory where scientists look for signs of life on other planets

A team in Edinburgh are behind the most groundbreaking and scientifically important images captured of our universe to date. The Edinburgh Royal Observatory team talks about the James Webb Space Telescope, early STEM education, and Scottish innovation in an exclusive tour and interview.

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Is the James Webb Space Telescope finding the furthest, oldest, youngest or first galaxies? An astronomer explains

We’ve now seen the first data from the James Webb Space Telescope. It has observed the atmospheres of distant planets, groups of nearby galaxies, galaxy light bent by unseen dark matter, and clouds of gas and dust in stellar nurseries.

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The James Webb Space Telescope may have just found its first supernova

This could be the first step to studying the oldest explosions in the universe.

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From the Lab: James Webb space telescope captures images of glittering galaxies

Even though it has only recently started taking observations, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured some of the sharpest and most detailed images of galaxies, nebulae and the distant universe.

Tribune News Service

VIEWPOINT 1: The Webb telescope is a bargain

Those spectacular pictures of galaxies forming at a time very near the origin of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope came at a pretty price: $9.7 billion, to be precise. It is fair to ask, “Is the Webb telescope project worth the price?”

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Webb Telescope May Have Already Found Most Distant Known Galaxy

Just a week after its first images were shown to the world, the James Webb Space Telescope may have found a galaxy that existed 13.5 billion years ago, a scientist who analyzed the data said Wednesday. Known as GLASS-z13, the galaxy dates back to 300 million years after the Big…

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The new science coming from the James Webb telescope has astronomers giddy

In the week since the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope were unveiled, astronomers have been poring through all the observations it's made so far--and they're happily overwhelmed.

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The wonders and terrors of modern technology evoke the ancient concept of the sublime, and present us with a choice

In recent weeks the world has been awed by the first series of colour images to emerge from the James Webb Space Telescope. A celestial concert, the images of swirling galaxies and conflagrations of gas presented an unprecedented view of the early cosmos. US President Joe Biden spoke of the…

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A micrometeoroid damages James Webb

Astronomers anticipated that micrometeoroids would hit the telescope, but the damage caused so far was unexpected

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