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james webb space telescope
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Astronomers can’t agree on how fast the universe is expanding. New approaches are aiming to break the impasse
ESA/Hubble & Nasa, F. Pacaud, D. Coe Alex Hall, The University of Edinburgh It is almost 100 years…
A Telescope Guide to Your Next Sky-Watching Adventure
Note (23/08/2024): All prices listed here reflect item prices at the time of writing. You may have looked…
A Supernova For the History Books
On February 23, 1987, the supernova SN1987A exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud, visible to the naked eye…
Webb Telescope Reveals Early Galaxy’s Bright Light Comes from New Stars, Not Black Hole
At a Glance Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made an exciting discovery about one…
Possible Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Discovered Near Milky Way’s Core
At a Glance A star cluster close to the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (SgrA*) at the center…
NASA’s JWST Discovery Challenges Galactic Evolution Theories
At a Glance A groundbreaking discovery by NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has shaken up the scientific…
Astronomers Uncover Earth-like Exoplanet 40 Light-Years Away, Hinting at Potential Habitability
At a Glance Astronomers have recently made a groundbreaking discovery of an exoplanet 40 light-years away, Gliese 12…
Could a telescope ever see the beginning of time? An astronomer explains
Thousands of galaxies, each containing billions of stars, are in this 2022 photo taken by the James Webb…
Is the “Crisis in Cosmology” Finally Solved?
The James Webb Space Telescope has recently put forward data from its observations that may put to rest…
Finding the Most Distant Black Hole Ever Detected
UHZ1 is the most distant black hole ever detected, located at the literal edge of the observable universe,…