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Study Suggests Nereid Is Neptune’s Last Intact Original Moon

JWST spectra and dynamical models imply Nereid was pushed into its eccentric orbit during Triton’s capture, making it a testable relic of Neptune’s original satellite system.

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JWST Details Io and Europa Auroral Footprints, Finds Rapid, Dense Cold Spot on Jupiter

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

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James Webb Delivers First 3D Map of Uranus’s Upper Atmosphere

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JWST Sees Protostar Forge Crystals in Outbursts, Then Hurl Them to Comet-Building Zones

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

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JWST Reveals Pulsar-Orbiting ‘Lemon’ Planet With Helium–Carbon Atmosphere

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

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Webb Unveils Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way’s Largest Star-Forming Cloud, in Unprecedented Detail

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

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

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

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Webb Reveals 8-Light-Year Protostellar Jet, Bolstering Massive-Star Formation Theory

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Webb Spots Methane Gas Above Dwarf Planet Makemake

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JWST Rules Out CO2-Dominated Sky on TRAPPIST-1e

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JWST Spots Unusually Compact Early-Universe Black Hole That May Predate Its Galaxy

James Webb Space Telescope

Study Suggests Nereid Is Neptune’s Last Intact Original Moon

JWST Reveals Dark, Airless Surface on Rocky Exoplanet LHS 3844 b

JWST Maps Tie Saturn’s Rotation Mystery to an Aurora-Driven Heat Loop

Webb Data Point to Sulfur‑Rich Magma‑Ocean Planet L 98‑59 d

Webb Observations Eliminate 2032 Lunar-Impact Risk From Asteroid 2024 YR4

JWST Details Io and Europa Auroral Footprints, Finds Rapid, Dense Cold Spot on Jupiter

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

James Webb Delivers First 3D Map of Uranus’s Upper Atmosphere

JWST Sees Protostar Forge Crystals in Outbursts, Then Hurl Them to Comet-Building Zones

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

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JWST Reveals Pulsar-Orbiting ‘Lemon’ Planet With Helium–Carbon Atmosphere

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

Webb Unveils Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way’s Largest Star-Forming Cloud, in Unprecedented Detail

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 Reveals 8-Light-Year Protostellar Jet, Bolstering Massive-Star Formation Theory

Webb Spots Methane Gas Above Dwarf Planet Makemake

JWST Rules Out CO2-Dominated Sky on TRAPPIST-1e

JWST Spots Unusually Compact Early-Universe Black Hole That May Predate Its Galaxy

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James Webb Space Telescope