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NASA’s Webb Images Cold Exoplanet 12 Light-Years Away
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged an exoplanet roughly 12 light-years from…
NASA’s Webb Investigates Eternal Sunrises, Sunsets on Distant World
Near-infrared spectral analysis of terminator confirms differences in morning and evening atmosphere Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have…
Coming in Hot — NASA’s Chandra Checks Habitability of Exoplanets
This graphic shows a three-dimensional map of stars near the Sun. These stars are close enough that they could be…
Webb Finds Plethora of Carbon Molecules Around Young Star
An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study the disk of gas and dust…
Discovery Alert: Spock’s Home Planet Goes ‘Poof’
The discovery A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A – host to Mr. Spock’s fictional home planet,…
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