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Astronomers Rule Out One Explanation for the Hubble Tension
Astronomers measure the Universe's expansion rate and have found a discrepancy between the speed nearby versus the speed measured in…
Webb Blocks the Star to See a Debris Disk Around Beta Pictoris
You think you know someone, then you see them in a slightly different way and BAM, they surprise you. I’m…
GJ 367b is Another Dead World Orbiting a Red Dwarf
Red dwarf exoplanet habitability is a hot topic in space science. These small dim stars host lots of exoplanets, including…
The Early Universe Was Surprisingly Filled With Spiral Galaxies
The Milky Way is a mature, grand spiral galaxy, and so are many galaxies around us. Astronomers have assumed that…
Webb Sees a Supernova Go Off in a Gravitationally Lensed Galaxy – for the Second Time
Nature, in its infinite inventiveness, provides natural astronomical lenses that allow us to see objects beyond the normal reach of…
Can Webb Find the First Stars in the Universe?
The Universe's very first stars had an important job. They formed from the primordial elements created by the Big Bang,…
What’s the Source of Binary Rogue Planets?
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is already making great strides in helping us to unravel the mysteries of the…
JWST Delivers A Fantastic New Image Of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
Astronomy is all about light. Sensing the tiniest amounts of it, filtering it, splitting it into its component wavelengths, and…
JWST Reveals a Newly-Forming Double Protostar
As our newest, most perceptive eye on the ongoing unfolding of the cosmos, the James Webb Space Telescope is revealing…
Adolescent Galaxies are Incandescent and Contain Unexpected Elements
If the Universe has adolescent galaxies, they're the ones that formed about 2 to 3 billion years after the Big…