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Webb Reveals Dust‑Hidden Core and Strange S‑Shaped Structure in Centaurus A

They offer a nearby laboratory to link an ancient merger with black‑hole activity to reveal how galaxies evolve.

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JWST Detects Salt Clouds on the 'Pink Planet' GJ504b

Webb Resolves Dawn and Dusk on Hot Jupiters

JWST Maps Dawn–Dusk Contrast on Ultra‑Hot Jupiter WASP‑121 b

JWST Resolves Morning Clouds and Clear Evenings on Hot Jupiter WASP-94A b

James Webb Maps the Universe’s Cosmic Web in Record Detail

Webb Maps the Surface of a Nearby Super-Earth, Revealing a Dark Basaltic World

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

JWST Spots Water-Ice Clouds on Nearby Jupiter-Like World

JWST Spots Record-Low Metallicity in ‘Forbidden’ Giant Planet’s Atmosphere

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

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 Reveals a Mature Grand-Design Spiral Galaxy Far Earlier Than Models Predict