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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.

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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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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)

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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)

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Astronomers have unveiled the world’s largest digital camera

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

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

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The giant El Gordo galaxy cluster

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JWST spots smallest galaxy outside our local universe

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

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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

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JWST has spotted bizarre rings of dust around a dying star

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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

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The Hubble Space Telescope

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SpaceX may help the Hubble Space Telescope boost its lifespan

NASA and SpaceX are studying whether it would be possible to use a Dragon spacecraft to boost the Hubble Space Telescope’s orbit, extending its lifetime by up to 20 years

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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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JWST has captured an astonishing view of Neptune and its rings

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James Webb Space Telescope captures its first pictures of Mars

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