it s 8am in singapore, and 9am injapan, where we begin this hour. thousands of people have spent the night in evacuation centres, following a powerful earthquake. six people were killed and dozens injured, with many more thought to be buried under the rubble of buildings. in the past hour, british prime minister rishi sunak said the uk stands ready to support tojapan, and is monitoring developments. the epicentre of the 7.6 magnitude quake was noto province in the centre of japan, with the tremors felt as far away as the capital tokyo. tens of thousands of people were told to head to higher ground, in the country s first major tsunami warning since 2011. the warning was later downgraded, with waves of less than one metre reported. suranjana tewari is injapan, and sent this report. this footage from inside someone s home captures the moment the powerful earthquake struck. some staff at this news network took cover, while others wanted to cover the story. the 7.6 magnitude eart
this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 8am injapan, where we begin this hour. thousands of people have spent the night in evacuation centres, following a powerful earthquake. four people were killed and dozens injured, with many more thought to be buried under the rubble of buildings. in the past hour, british prime minister rishi sunak said the uk stands ready to support to japan, and is monitoring developments. the epicentre of the 7.6 magnitude quake was noto province in the centre ofjapan, with the tremors felt as far away as the capital tokyo. tens of thousands of people were told to head to higher ground, in the country s first major tsunami warning since 2011. the warning was later downgraded, with waves of less than one metre reported. suranjana tewari is injapan, and sent this report. this footage from inside someone s home captures the moment the powerful earthquake struck. some staff at this news network took cover, while others wanted to cover
tethered to any star, these tiny pairs of light here. they re called jupiter mass binary objects orjumbos and they ve left astronomers scratching their heads. nobody predicted or expected you would see objects the size ofjupiter orbiting around each other, freely floating. we thought we would see singles, isolated ones, but to find binaries like this is crazy. we don t expect to find the answer on day one, year one. this is a long journey for all of us now. so, what s next for the james webb space telescope? no doubt there will be more ethereal images. and it will start to look even further back in time as it continues its quest to detect the light from the very first stars to shine. rebecca morelle, bbc news. mickey mouse and minnie have long been fixtures in the public s imagination and now they re in the public domain. that because us copyright law covers characters for 95 years.
what we re now finding with jwst is surprisingly large black holes already existing quite early on in the universe s history, when there hasn t been time to go through this process of stars forming and living their lives. so what that suggests is that actually, these black holes are completely skipping the star formation part of the process. we re also seeing the unexpected, closer to home, bizarre, planet like objects nicknamed jumbos. this is the orion nebula, a star forming region in the milky way. but look a little closer, and there s something incredibly strange huge planet like objects floating free, not tethered to any star, these tiny pairs of light here. they re called jupiter mass binary objects orjumbos and they ve left astronomers scratching their heads. nobody predicted or expected you would see objects the size ofjupiter orbiting around each other, freely floating. we thought we would see
a star forming region in the milky way. but look a little closer, and there s something incredibly strange huge planet like objects floating free, not tethered to any star, these tiny pairs of light here. they re called jupiter mass binary objects orjumbos and they ve left astronomers scratching their heads. nobody predicted or expected you would see objects the size ofjupiter orbiting around each other, freely floating. we thought we would see singles, isolated ones, but to find binaries like this is crazy. we don t expect to find the answer on day one, year one. this is a long journey for all of us now. so, what s next for the james webb space telescope? no doubt there will be more ethereal images. and it will start to look even further back in time as it continues its quest to detect the light from the very first stars to shine. rebecca morelle, bbc news.