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A spacecraft is falling to its doom " can NASA save it?
13+ hour, 12+ min ago (141+ words) A successful rescue of the Swift space observatory could be a good omen for the Hubble Space Telescope. A successful rescue of the Swift space observatory could be a good omen for the Hubble Space Telescope....
Another Early Universe Surprise from the JWST: A Mature Galaxy Cluster
14+ hour, 14+ min ago (324+ words) The JWST found a galaxy cluster from 10 billion years ago that's far more developed than it should be, according to cosmological models. The cluster is also the most distant strong gravitational lens that we know of. Detailed observations across the…...
Scientists Discover Salty Clouds On the Mysterious Pink Planet
14+ hour, 7+ min ago (190+ words) JWST read GJ 504 b's atmosphere in two hours, confirming salt clouds theorists had predicted for 15 years The atmosphere's chemistry only made sense once researchers added clouds of potassium chloride and zinc sulfide to their models. Salt clouds weren't an exotic…...
Famous Pink Planet Mystery Decoded: JWST Says Salt Clouds are the Culprit
15+ hour, 48+ min ago (493+ words) This Magenta world's strange atmosphere made no sense until JWST found intriguing clouds made of salt....
The Hottest Known Exoplanets May Hold Clues to Planetary Habitability
20+ hour, 49+ min ago (28+ words) The first direct measurements of exoplanet magnetic fields reveal that ultra-hot Jupiters possess strong magnetism that shapes their atmospheres and may provide new insights into planetary habitability....
A Famous Nebula in Sagittarius Has "Ears" That May Reveal a Hidden Stellar Companion
13+ hour, 27+ min ago (621+ words) New observations reveal that the peculiar "ears" of planetary nebula NGC 6563 formed thousands of years before the main nebula, challenging long-standing assumptions about its evolution. Located about 5, 400 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, NGC 6563 has intrigued astronomers since its discovery…...
Webb Sees Jupiter-Size Exoplanet Being Roasted by Its Star | Sci. News
18+ hour, 29+ min ago (34+ words) HD 80606b has one of the most extreme orbits of any known exoplanet and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope just caught it getting flash-fried as it whipped past its star....
When JWST looked at XLSSC 122, a galaxy cluster 10. 4 billion light-years away, it caught gravity bending light from galaxies about 12 billion years in the past, and a dark matter core packed too tightly for cosmic noon
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For a decade the Pink Planet was too faint for any ground telescope to study " and when James Webb finally caught its spectrum, the best fit to the light was an atmosphere hazed with salt clouds
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (166+ words) GJ 504 b, the rosy world that defeated the world's biggest ground telescopes for years, gave up its first spectrum to JWST in a few hours of telescope time. The model that matched the light needed clouds made of salt....
Webb Telescope spots every stage of star formation in Orion Cloud
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (601+ words) WASHINGTON, June 21, 2026, 16: 48 EDT Timing is important here as Webb shifts away from just taking impressive images. In OMC-2, a region 1, 280 light-years out and just above the Orion Nebula, scientists have a clear spot to track newly forming stars throwing off…...