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James Webb Space Telescope

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Webb Unveils Layered 'Exposed Cranium' Nebula With Jet-Carved Divide

Infrared imaging traces sequential ejecta from the central star, pointing to a hydrogen-rich shell plus a complex inner cloud shaped by outflows.

JWST Charts Uranus’s Upper Atmosphere in 3D, Exposing Auroral Bands and a Cooling Trend

JWST Detects First Extragalactic Methyl Radical in Carbon‑Rich, Dust‑Buried Galaxy

Webb Delivers Sharpest Contiguous Map of Dark Matter’s Cosmic Web

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Black Holes Shrouded in Gas, Nature Study Finds

Webb’s Interferometric Image Reveals Dusty Torus Feeding Circinus Galaxy’s Black Hole

Webb Finds Carbon-Rich Atmosphere on Lemon-Shaped Planet Orbiting a Pulsar

Webb Data Point to Thick Atmosphere on Ultra‑Hot Super‑Earth TOI‑561 b

JWST Maps Giant Dual Helium Tails Streaming From Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-121 b

JWST Maps Comet-Like Helium Escape From Super-Puff Exoplanet WASP-107b

Webb Confirms Overmassive Black Hole Feeding in a Galaxy 570 Million Years After the Big Bang

JWST Delivers First 3D Map of an Exoplanet's Atmosphere

JWST Finds Phosphine on Ancient Brown Dwarf, Matching Model Predictions

JWST Study Finds Aurora-Driven Heating and Thermal Inversion on Nearby Rogue World SIMP-0136

Webb Makes First Direct Chemical Reading of a Moon-Forming Disk Around CT Cha b

Webb Study Detects Auroral Heating and Sub‑5°C Weather Shifts on Rogue Planet SIMP‑0136

JWST Reveals Unexplained ‘Dark Beads’ and Asymmetric Star Pattern Over Saturn’s North Pole

Webb Spots Dark Beads and Lopsided Star Pattern Aligned Over Saturn’s Hexagon

JWST Study Proposes ‘Black Hole Stars’ to Explain Mysterious Early‑Universe Red Dots

Webb Spots Methane Gas Above Dwarf Planet Makemake