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The Red Spider Nebula as snapped by the James Webb Space Telescope.

James Webb telescope celebrates Halloween with eerie image of a dying sun — it's what our own might look like one day

By Ben Turner published

This Halloween, the James Webb Space Telescope has served us up a stunning image of the Red Spider Nebula. It could be a glimpse of our solar system will in the distant future.

Space

'Puzzling' object discovered by James Webb telescope may be the earliest known galaxy in the universe

By Sophie Berdugo published

While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling discoveries" to date.

Cosmology
Infrared image of a pink jet of particles blasting out of a bright supermassive black hole

James Webb telescope finds something 'very exciting' shooting out of first black hole ever imaged

By Sophie Berdugo published

Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a new light.

Black Holes
An artist's interpretation of what Makemake might look like

James Webb telescope spies a 'farting' dwarf planet with fluorescent gas in the outer solar system

By Harry Baker published

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure if the gas is contained within a wispy atmosphere or being ejected into space.

Astronomy
The Earth-size exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e, depicted at the lower right, is silhouetted as it passes in front of its flaring host star in this artist’s concept of the TRAPPIST-1 system.

TRAPPIST-1e might have an atmosphere, JWST hints

By Ryan MacDonald, Hannah Wakeford published

Scientists studying the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e may have found hints of an atmosphere. If confirmed, it could be an important step toward finding a habitable world outside our solar system.

Space
Uranus.

Uranus has a new, hidden moon, James Webb Space Telescope reveals

By Ben Turner published

Uranus' 29th moon was hidden inside the planet's dark inner rings, new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal.

Uranus
Nine new images created by its Chandra X-ray Observatory, with help from Hubble and JWST.

NASA unveils 9 stunning snapshots of the cosmos in X-ray vision: Space photo of the week

By Jamie Carter published

Scientists have released nine dazzling images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, blending data with the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to reveal black holes, star clusters and distant galaxies like never before.

Space
The James Webb Space Telescope's snap of the Apep nebula in false color.

James Webb telescope spies 2 dying stars spilling their guts

By Ben Turner published

Captured in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope, the peculiar star system Apep consists of two dying stars spewing their innards at each other.

Space

See a young star potentially giving birth to a giant planet in new image from Very Large Telescope

By Patrick Pester published

New images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter.

Exoplanets
A close-up view of a barred spiral galaxy. Two spiral arms reach horizontally away from the core in the centre, merging into a broad network of gas and dust which fills the image. This material glows brightest orange along the path of the arms, and is darker red across the rest of the galaxy. Through many gaps in the dust, countless tiny stars can be seen, most densely around the core.

Has the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a 'missing' supermassive black hole? (video)

By Robert Lea published

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive black hole in a distant spiral galaxy.

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