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From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human eyes have ever seen. In May, astronomers announced that Webb detected the ...
A celestial light show illuminates a distant spiral galaxy, where a hidden supernova briefly outshines its stellar neighbors in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, called NGC ...
A nearby star is surrounded by an eerily perfect, "pancake-like" disk of cosmic debris that is unlike anything seen before, new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images reveal. The surprisingly ...
WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called Sagittarius A*. In fact, these objects ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be eating 40 times faster than is theoretically possible. Using JWST to get a ...
Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS): FGS is essential for keeping JWST accurately oriented, locking onto guide stars to stabilize the telescope’s ...
The famous Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed due to a combination of decayed zinc in the telescope’s cable sockets and previous damage from Hurricane Maria, according to a report ...
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals surprisingly bright early galaxies, indicating they may have formed stars more rapidly than expected. This challenges traditional views on galaxy formation and ...
A crane knocked over a shipping container at a Vancouver freight terminal Friday morning, and the falling metal box almost landed on a truck driver waiting below. The frightening incident has sparked ...