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James Webb telescope finds something 'very exciting' shooting out of first black hole ever imaged
By Sophie Berdugo published
Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a new light.

James Webb telescope spies a 'farting' dwarf planet with fluorescent gas in the outer solar system
By Harry Baker published
New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure if the gas is contained within a wispy atmosphere or being ejected into space.

TRAPPIST-1e might have an atmosphere, JWST hints
By Ryan MacDonald, Hannah Wakeford published
Scientists studying the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e may have found hints of an atmosphere. If confirmed, it could be an important step toward finding a habitable world outside our solar system.

Uranus has a new, hidden moon, James Webb Space Telescope reveals
By Ben Turner published
Uranus' 29th moon was hidden inside the planet's dark inner rings, new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal.

NASA unveils 9 stunning snapshots of the cosmos in X-ray vision: Space photo of the week
By Jamie Carter published
Scientists have released nine dazzling images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, blending data with the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to reveal black holes, star clusters and distant galaxies like never before.

James Webb telescope spies 2 dying stars spilling their guts
By Ben Turner published
Captured in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope, the peculiar star system Apep consists of two dying stars spewing their innards at each other.

See a young star potentially giving birth to a giant planet in new image from Very Large Telescope
By Patrick Pester published
New images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter.

Has the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a 'missing' supermassive black hole? (video)
By Robert Lea published
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive black hole in a distant spiral galaxy.

James Webb telescope spies record-breaking hoard of stars hiding in a warped 'dragon' galaxy
By Harry Baker published
Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" galaxy, 6.5 billion light-years from Earth. It is the largest group of individually imaged stars ever seen at such a distance.
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