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Fully deployed Webb telescope. Artist concept. The James Webb Space Telescope.

Space

The extraordinary JWST is named for James Webb, whose legacy I deplore

James Webb's legacy was to stand for a status quo where queer Black people like me could never have a home in the NASA community. Naming the incredible new telescope after him has come to represent the contradictions of my job, says Chanda Prescod-Weinsten

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The giant El Gordo galaxy cluster

Space

JWST spots smallest galaxy outside our local universe

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Electron microscope image of the new aluminium alloy

Chemistry

Aluminium alloy could boost spacecraft radiation shielding 100-fold

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Lake Powell

Environment

Shocking images show scale of megadrought devastation in North America

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The Pillars of Creation as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope

Space

JWST has taken a star-studded new image of the Pillars of Creation

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JWST has spotted bizarre rings of dust around a dying star

Space

JWST has spotted bizarre rings of dust around a dying star

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Human hibernation is a real possibility - this is how it might work

Health

Human hibernation is a real possibility - this is how it might work

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Cows on a green globe

How spherical-cow philosophy makes hard physics problems easy

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Watch out for three meteor showers set to occur in October

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By combining data from NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA?s Hubble Space Telescope, researchers were able to trace light that was emitted by the large white elliptical galaxy at left through the spiral galaxy at right and identify the effects of interstellar dust in the spiral galaxy. This image of galaxy pair VV 191 includes near-infrared light from Webb, and ultraviolet and visible light from Hubble. Webb?s near-infrared data also show us the galaxy?s longer, extremely dusty spiral arms in far more detail, giving them an appearance of overlapping with the central bulge of the bright white elliptical galaxy on the left. Although the two foreground galaxies are relatively close astronomically speaking, they are not actively interacting. Don?t overlook the background scenery! Like many Webb images, this image of VV 191 shows many galaxies that lie great distances away. For example, two patchy spirals to the upper left of the elliptical galaxy have similar apparent sizes, but show up in very different colors. One is likely very dusty and the other very far away, but researchers need to obtain data known as spectra to determine which is which.

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JWST and Hubble teamed up to take a stunning image of two galaxies

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope observe the universe in different wavelengths, and combining their data has given astronomers a detailed look at the interstellar dust in a pair of galaxies

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Space

Did magnetism shape the universe? An epic experiment suggests it did

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Space

SpaceX may help the Hubble Space Telescope boost its lifespan

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Hubble and JWST both saw the aftermath of NASA's DART asteroid mission

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JWST has taken a picture of the gaseous ‘skeleton’ of a spiral galaxy

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