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This artist concept portrays the star PDS 70 and its inner protoplanetary disc

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Water seen in young planet system shows Earth may have always been wet

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted water vapour in an area where planets may be forming, which could present an answer to the debate over how Earth got its water

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Best science fiction films about space, according to an astrophysicist

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Best science fiction films about space, according to an astrophysicist

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These three objects were originally identified as galaxies but they may actually be “dark stars”

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JWST may have spotted enormous stars powered by dark matter

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Bizarre portal-like ‘ring wormholes’ could let you time travel

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India's Chandrayaan-3 launches to explore moon's water-rich south pole

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Caption The first anniversary image from NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope displays star birth like it?s never been seen before, full of detailed, impressionistic texture. The subject is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth. It is a relatively small, quiet stellar nursery, but you?d never know it from Webb?s chaotic close-up. Jets bursting from young stars crisscross the image, impacting the surrounding interstellar gas and lighting up molecular hydrogen, shown in red. Some stars display the telltale shadow of a circumstellar disk, the makings of future planetary systems. The young stars at the center of many of these disks are similar in mass to the Sun, or smaller. The heftiest in this image is the star S1, which appears amid a glowing cave it is carving out with its stellar winds in the lower half of the image. The lighter-colored gas surrounding S1 consists of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a family of carbon-based molecules that are among the most common compounds found in space. For more detail on what is happening where in Webb?s image of Rho Ophiuchi, watch the video tour and read the press release. Credits Image NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI) Image Processing Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

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JWST celebrates first year of science with awesome star-forming image

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James Webb Space Telescope images

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The 8 most dazzling images from JWST’s first year of science

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We must address a key obstacle to our new age of space exploration

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We must address a key obstacle to our new age of space exploration

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The best new science fiction books of July 2023

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The best new science fiction books of July 2023

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JWST image of Saturn

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Stunning JWST image sees Saturn show off its glowing rings

A strange and unfamiliar view of Saturn has been captured by the James Webb Space Telescope to help researchers identify its smaller objects and structures

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The JWST is already delivering on its promise to transform cosmology

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What the huge young galaxies seen by JWST tell us about the universe

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Space germs: How can we avoid contaminating other worlds?

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Planned moon landings could pelt orbiting spacecraft with dusty debris

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