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An international team of astrophysicists, including from London, Ont.’s Western University, are using the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal the destruction of one oceans’ worth of water every month in a planetary nursery in the Orion Nebula.

Observations of quasars reveal that many supermassive black holes (BHs) were in place less than 700 Myr after the Big Bang. However, the origin of the first BHs remains a mystery. Seeds of the first BHs are postulated to be either light (that is, 10−100 M⊙), remnants of the first stars, or heavy (that is, 10−105 M⊙), originating from the direct collapse of gas clouds. Here, harnessing recent data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, we report the detectio...

JWST captured a never-before-seen jet stream with winds twice as strong as a Category 5 hurricane.

Professor Joshua Lothringer grew up looking at the stars on the plains of Colorado. Now, the Utah Valley University faculty member helped discover the presence of carbon dioxide on an exoplanet 700 lightyears from Earth. Lothringer, 31, said he was going to study either music — specifically the guitar — or astronomy if he could […]

A Utah Valley University science professor helped discover carbon dioxide on an exoplanet 700 lightyears from Earth.

With its sensitive infrared cameras and high-resolution spectrometer, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of Jupiter’s Galilean satellites – in particular Ganymede, the largest moon, and Io, the most volcanically active.In

Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 28, 2023 - With its sensitive infrared cameras and high-resolution spectrometer, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of Jupiters Galilean satellites, in particular Ganymede, the lar

Newly released images of Jupiter prove that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope can bring fresh perspectives to familiar celestial sights.

In a first, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected a critical carbon molecule, known as methyl cation (CH3+), in a far-off star system. This discovery could provide invaluable insights into the formation of life in the universe., Technology & Science News, Times Now

Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 27, 2023 - A team of international scientists has used NASAs James Webb Space Telescope to detect a new carbon compound in space for the first time. Known as methyl cation (pronounced cat-eye-on) (CH3+), the