James Webb telescope takes emergency look at 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 ahead of close encounter in 2032
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach in 2032. The telescope confirmed Earth is safe, but there is a 3.8% chance that our moon may be in trouble.
The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope takes its 1st cosmic images: 'The instrument team nailed it'This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...
Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...
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James Webb telescope zooms in on bizarre 'Einstein ring' caused by bending of the universeThe strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...
Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...
A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...
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James Webb telescope reveals 'cosmic tornado' in best detail ever — and finds part of it is not what it seemsNASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has snapped a spectacular image of a "cosmic tornado" being burped out from a baby ...
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Scientists used JWST instruments 'wrong' on purpose to capture direct images of exoplanetsHere's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...
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