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2mo ago

JWST Finds Salt Clouds Veiling the Pink Planet GJ504b

The telescope’s spectrum shows water, methane, carbon dioxide and ammonia beneath chloride or sulfide salt clouds and signals that clouds must be included in models.

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3mo ago

First Detection of Heavy Water in a Planet-Forming Disk Points to Prestellar Origins

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10mo ago

Rogue Planet Devours Matter at Record 6 Billion Tons Per Second

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this yr.

Study Pins Jupiter’s Birth to 1.8 Million Years After the Solar System Began

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this yr.

Study Hints at 'Planet Y' in Outer Solar System After Kuiper Belt Warp Detected

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last yr.

Psyche Spacecraft Snaps Distant Earth–Moon Portrait During Instrument Checkout

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last yr.

Webb Uncovers Provisional Saturn-Mass Exoplanet in Alpha Centauri A’s Habitable Zone

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last yr.

James Webb Space Telescope Captures First Exoplanet by Direct Imaging

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last yr.

Saturn-Sized Exoplanet Orbits Record-Low Mass Star, Challenging Formation Theories

Planet Formation

JWST Finds Salt Clouds Veiling the Pink Planet GJ504b

Webb and Hubble Show Massive Star Clusters Shed Birth Clouds Sooner

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

Astronomers Make First Direct Mass Measurement of a Rogue Planet

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

Closest Directly Imaged Planet Around Two Suns Confirmed on a 300-Year Orbit

Early Jupiter Shaped the Inner Solar System, Study Finds

First Detection of Heavy Water in a Planet-Forming Disk Points to Prestellar Origins

Rogue Planet Devours Matter at Record 6 Billion Tons Per Second

Study Pins Jupiter’s Birth to 1.8 Million Years After the Solar System Began

Study Hints at 'Planet Y' in Outer Solar System After Kuiper Belt Warp Detected

Psyche Spacecraft Snaps Distant Earth–Moon Portrait During Instrument Checkout

Webb Uncovers Provisional Saturn-Mass Exoplanet in Alpha Centauri A’s Habitable Zone

James Webb Space Telescope Captures First Exoplanet by Direct Imaging

Saturn-Sized Exoplanet Orbits Record-Low Mass Star, Challenging Formation Theories

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