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The protostar within the dark cloud L1527, shown in this image from NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is embedded within a cloud of material feeding its growth. Ejections from the star have cleared out cavities above and below it, whose boundaries glow orange and blue in this infrared view. The upper central region displays bubble-like shapes due to stellar ?burps,? or sporadic ejections.

Space

JWST sees a stunning hourglass of light around a still-forming star

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a star that hasn’t yet finished forming, along with a disc of debris that may eventually become planets

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NASA's Space Launch System rocket taking off from Kennedy Space Center

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NASA’s enormous SLS rocket has launched to space for the first time

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Abell 370 picture

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Astronomers saw a distant supernova less than 6 hours after it blew up

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Light from MACS0647-JD is bent and magnified by the massive gravity of this cluster of galaxies, called MACS0647, causing it to appear in multiple places (highlighted in boxes)

Space

JWST finds ancient galaxy may actually be two galaxies merging

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Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are nearly done with the LSST Camera, the world's largest digital camera ever built for astronomy. Roughly the size of a small car and weighing in at three tons, the camera features a five-foot wide front lens and a 3,200 megapixel sensor that will be cooled to -100??C to reduce noise. Once complete and in place atop the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope in Chile, the camera will survey the southern night sky for a decade, creating a trove of data that scientists will pore over to better understand some of the universe's biggest mysteries, including the nature of dark energy and dark matter. (Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Technology

Astronomers have unveiled the world’s largest digital camera

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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

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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

The Pillars of Creation are huge towers of gas and dust where stars are born, and the James Webb Space Telescope has peered through the clouds to see the young stars

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Space

JWST has spotted bizarre rings of dust around a dying star

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Health

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

Features

How spherical-cow philosophy makes hard physics problems easy

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Space

Watch out for three meteor showers set to occur in October

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