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James Webb telescope spots more than 100 new asteroids between Jupiter and Mars — and some are heading toward Earth
Astronomers analyzing archival images from JWST have discovered an unexpectedly vast population of the smallest asteroids ...
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James Webb Telescope Confirms the Universe Is Expanding Faster Than We Thought—and Scientists Still Don’t Know Why
Astronomers have long understood that the universe is expanding—in other words, the space in between cosmic objects that aren ...
NASA's James Webb Telescope Reveals Universe Expanding Faster Than Thought
The rate of expansion of the universe today is a figure known as the Hubble constant, which is typically measured in units of ...
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James Webb Space Telescope finds smallest asteroids ever seen between Mars and Jupiter
By reverse-engineering James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) exoplanet data, a team of astronomers just spotted dozens of tiny ...
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'Our understanding of the universe may be incomplete': James Webb Space Telescope data suggests we need a 'new cosmic feature' to explain it all
"The discrepancy between the observed expansion rate of the universe and the predictions of the standard model suggests that ...
Cracks in cosmological theory: James Webb telescope is challenging what we know about the universe
This month marks three years since the James Webb Space Telescope was first launched, which still feels something like a ...
'We know so little': Bizarre 'runaway' planets discovered by James Webb telescope may be failed stars in disguise
A new theory explains how dozens of mysterious planet pairs discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, dubbed "JuMBOs," ...
TRAPPIST-1b: Bare Rock or Hazy Alien World? Webb’s Surprising Discovery
New observations of TRAPPIST-1b using the James Webb Space Telescope have provided detailed insights into the potential ...
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Webb telescope "weighs" a galaxy for the first time
Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, this galaxy existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang and gleams with 10 distinct star ...
NASA's James Webb discovers Firefly Sparkle galaxy with mass similar to the Milky Way
NASA's Webb Telescope 'weighs' galaxy Firefly Sparkle, revealing its mass and star formation processes 600 million years ...
Webb Telescope Confirms Hubble Constant, Challenging Crucial Cosmic Theory
These instruments, like the Hubble Space Telescope, reported a value of around 73 km/s/Mpc. The difference between these ...
Newly discovered galaxy Firefly Sparkle looks a lot like Milky Way. See incredible photos
Kartheik Iyer, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University in New York, was the co-author on the paper on Firefly Sparkle. It ...