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Topic: James Webb Telescope

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Does alien life smell like the sea?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
James Webb Telescope and Pillars of Creation (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/NASA)

James Webb telescope a gift to humanity

Matthew Rozsa
CASPAR, a small particle accelerator located nearly a mile underground at SURF, can recreate the conditions inside stars, including the first stars in the universe. (Matt Kapust / Sanford Underground Research Facility)

The poetry of a particle accelerator

Rae Hodge
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s high resolution, near-infrared look at Herbig-Haro 211 reveals exquisite detail of the outflow of a young star, an infantile analogue of our Sun. (ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, Tom Ray (Dublin))

James Webb captures new baby star

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star on July 12, 2022 in space. The observation, which reveals the presence of specific gas molecules based on tiny decreases in the brightness of precise colors of light, is the most detailed of its kind to date, demonstrating Webb's unprecedented ability to analyze atmospheres hundreds of light-years away. (NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)

Webb sees water vapor on another planet

Nicole Karlis
James Webb Space Telescope looking at galaxies (Photo illustration by NASA)

Webb's first five images explained

Matthew Rozsa
James Webb Space Telescope looking at galaxies (Photo illustration by NASA)

Finding ET through... pollutants?

Nicole Karlis
A technical drawing is seen on screen as Systems Engineers Christopher Murray (R) works at his console at the Webb Mission Office ahead of the James Web Space Telescopes launch at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 3, 2021. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

The James Webb telescope's big gamble

Nicole Karlis
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The James Webb Space Telescope hovering over Earth, concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Astronomy doubles down on search for ET

Nicole Karlis
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