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NASA detects new planet with temperatures that suggest habitable conditions
The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...
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Webb’s Mid-Infrared Breakthrough Unveils Young Saturn-Mass Exoplanet Sculpting Its Own Debris Disk
How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...
New nano-based filter for infrared light promises cheap, robust spectrometers
A new filter for infrared light could see scanning and screening technology tumble in price and size. Built on nanotechnology ...
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The James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Its First Direct Image Discovery of an Exoplanet
Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...
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James Webb Telescope Debuts New Trick: Blocking Out Stars and Photographing Their Planets
Since its debut in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled viewers with its infrared images of galaxies, nebulae, ...
How can the James Webb Space Telescope see so far?
How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a camera so powerful it can see light from galaxies that formed more than 13 ...
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Scientists Detect Light Traversing the Entire Human Head—Opening a Window to the Brain’s Deepest Regions
To test the limits, the researchers started by firing a powerful, ultrafast laser into the side of a volunteer’s head. The ...