James Webb Space Telescope Made a Salty Discovery in This Unusual Exoplanet’s Skies
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The Debrief ^
| June 20, 2026 | Ryan Whalen
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have revealed the colorful secret of the Pink Planet, the coldest object of its type ever directly observed. A
team of astronomers led by Northwestern University has revealed their findings in a recent paper published in The Astronomical Journal, finally describing the rose-colored haze covering the planetary-mass companion GJ504b, thanks to JWST data. For over a decade, researchers have speculated that atmospheric salt clouds may create the pink planet’s strange hue, but this is the first concrete evidence for the hypothesis. The Pink Planet Since its discovery in 2013,...
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James Webb Telescope Sees Life-Like Molecules Taking Shape In The ‘Bug Nebula’s’ Final Breath
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Study Finds ^
| August 27, 2025 | Dr Mikako Matsuura (Cardiff University)
This image, which combines infrared data from the James Webb Space Telescope with submillimeter observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), shows the doughnut-shaped torus and interconnected bubbles of dusty gas that surround the Butterfly Nebula’s central star. The
torus is oriented vertically and nearly edge-on from our perspective, and it intersects with bubbles of gas enclosing the star. The bubbles appear bright red in this image, illuminated by the light from helium and neon gas. Outside the bubbles, jets traced by emission from ionized iron shoot off in opposite directions. (Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Matsuura, ALMA...
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NASA detects a possibly habitable planet via James Webb Space telescope
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Just The News ^
| July 02, 2025 | Misty Severi
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently detected a planet that could possibly sustain life based on temperature readings, which has a mass approximately 100 times the size of Earth. The planet, which astronomers believe is orbiting a young red dwarf star approximately 34 light years away, has been dubbed TWA 7b and
is roughly the size of Saturn. An initial analysis suggests the planet has a temperature of near 120 degrees Fahrenheit, which is warm enough to support life. Scientists believe life can grow and reproduce starting at about 5 degrees Fahrenheit and as high as 251 degrees Fahrenheit, per...
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James Webb Space Telescope Captures First Direct Image of Mysterious Alien Exoplanet Lurking in Dusty Debris Disk
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The Debrief ^
| June 25, 2025 | Micah Hanks
Exoplanet TWA 7 b (Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, A.M. Lagrange, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)). In a groundbreaking first, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured its first direct image of a distant exoplanet unrecognized from past astronomical surveys. The
milestone achievement was made possible with help from a special coronagraph aboard Webb’s MIRI instrument that allows Webb to capture imagery under conditions that mimic those which occur naturally during an eclipse. The discovery made in research lead by researcher Anne-Marie Lagrange with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Paris Observatory, in collaboration with Grenoble Alpes University....
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1.5TB of James Webb Space Telescope data dumped on the internet
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COSMOS ^
| June 10, 2025 | COSMOS
1.5TB of James Webb Space Telescope data dumped on the internet — new searchable database is the largest window into our universe to date | New imagery encompassing nearly 800,000 galaxies.
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People in awe over 'insane' photo of Uranus captured by NASA’s James Webb Telescope...'I had zero clue this is what Uranus looked like'
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www.unilad.com/ ^
| May 27, 2025 | Ellie Kemp
Over the decades, NASA has managed to capture a number of astonishing photos from space, showcasing how beautiful the cosmos really is. Take
these unique details on Saturn’s moon Iapetus as the perfect example. Or how about an eerie snapshot taken by the so-called ‘most isolated man in the universe?’ These photos have a way of pulling you in and honestly, I could scroll through them for hours on end. I'm not alone; one social media user has re-shared two stunning photos of Uranus captured by NASA which have since gone viral. The US agency launched its James Webb Space...
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“The Beginning of a New Era”: NASA’s James Webb Reveals Three ‘Red Monsters’ Growing in the Infant Universe
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Indian Defence Review ^
| April 28, 2025 | Arezki Amiri
These findings suggest that the universe’s first billion years were far more crowded and complex than models had predicted. The
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a discovery that is changing what scientists thought they knew about the early universe. Astronomers have found huge, star-forming galaxies — nicknamed “red monsters” — that formed faster and more efficiently than ever imagined. The Early Universe Was Much Busier Than Expected Since its launch, JWST has revealed a much richer universe than astronomers had expected. Studies now show that the young cosmos had 10 to 100 times more galaxies than models suggested....
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'Cosmic tornado' swirls in breathtaking new James Webb Space Telescope image
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Space.com ^
| March 24, 2025 | Victoria Corless
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed Herbig-Haro 49/50, an outflow from a nearby still-forming star, in high-resolution near- and mid-infrared light. The
young star is off to the lower left corner of the Webb image. Intricate features of the outflow, represented in reddish-orange color, provide detailed clues about how young stars form and how their jet activity affects the environment around them. A chance alignment in this direction of the sky provides a beautiful juxtaposition of this nearby Herbig-Haro object (located within our Milky Way) with a face-on spiral galaxy in the distant background. Image released on March 24, 2025....
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'We had less than a 2% chance to find this': James Webb telescope uncovers baffling 'Big Wheel', one of the most massive galaxies in the early universe
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Live Science ^
| March 21, 2025 | Themiya Nanayakkara
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an object they've dubbed 'Big Wheel,' a gargantuan galaxy spinning through the early universe and growing larger by the second. The
Big Wheel alongside some of its neighbors. (Image credit: Weichen Wang et al. (2025), CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early universe. It's a cosmic giant whose light has travelled over 12 billion years to reach us. We've dubbed it the Big Wheel, with our findings published March 17 in Nature Astronomy. This giant disk galaxy...
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James Webb Space Telescope Snaps The First Images of an Exoplanet with Possible Life-Giving CO₂
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The Debrief ^
| March 17, 2025 | Ryan Whalen
New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images show the first carbon dioxide-containing planet discovered outside of Earth’s solar system, displaying the telescope’s ground breaking research capabilities. One
hundred thirty thousand lightyears from Earth, the multiplanet system HR 8799 has been a primary target for astronomers studying planet formation. The new research confirms JWST’s ability to measure an exoplanet’s atmospheric chemistry and suggests the four planets formed similarly to Jupiter and Saturn, coalescing around a solid core. Viewing a Young Solar System At only 30 million years old, HR 8799 is relatively young compared to Earth’s 4.6 billion-year-old solar system. Due...
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Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This James Webb Space Telescope discovery might blow your mind
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Space.com ^
| 3/12/25 | Robert Lea
"I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole." ...Black
hole cosmology, also known as "Schwarzschild cosmology," suggests that our observable universe might be the interior of a black hole itself within a larger parent universe. The idea was first introduced by theoretical physicist Raj Kumar Pathria and by mathematician I. J. Good. It presents the idea that the "Schwarzchild radius," better known as the "event horizon," (the boundary from within which nothing can escape a black hole, not even light) is also the horizon of the visible universe.
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Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This James Webb Space Telescope discovery might blow your mind
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Space.com ^
| March 14, 2025 | Robert Lea
Galaxies observed by the JWST with those rotating one way circled in red, those rotating the other wat circled in blue (Image credit: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2025)) ======================================== Without a doubt, since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revolutionized our view of the early universe,
but its new findings could put astronomers in a spin. In fact, it could tell us something profound about the birth of the universe by possibly hinting that everything we see around us is sealed within a black hole. The $10 billion telescope, which began observing the cosmos...
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James Webb Space Telescope Just Spotted Something Astronomers Have Never Seen in our Solar System
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The Debrief ^
| January 17, 2025 | Christopher Plain
Artist’s impression of GJ 1214 b passing in front of its host star. The
“transit method” allows astronomers to study an exoplanet by seeing which wavelengths of light dim when the star’s light passes through the exoplanet atmosphere. (Credit: NAOJ) Scientists have classified a novel category of exoplanets spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope that appear to have no equivalent in our solar system. This newly proposed category of exoplanet, dubbed “Super Venus,” has often frustrated researchers due to its combination of properties that land it somewhere between Earth and Neptune. A team of researchers believes their analysis of...
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James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Exoplanet Trappist-1 B Could Have An Atmosphere, Challenging Past Conclusions
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The Debrief ^
| December 18, 2001 | Ryan Whalen
New findings made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that the Earth-like exoplanet Trappist-1 b may have an atmosphere after all, potentially overturning earlier findings. Approximately
forty light years from Earth, seven planets orbit the star Trappist-1, three of which–Trappist-1e, f, and g–exist in the star’s habitable zone and could theoretically be warm enough to allow for liquid water on their surfaces. Since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has logged 290 hours observing the Trappist-1 system across ten research endeavors. Elsa Ducort of Paris’s Commissariat aux Énergies Atomiques (CEA) led the study team, which analyzed...
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“Firefly Sparkle”: James Webb Telescope Discovers a New Early Galaxy Similar to the Milky Way
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The Debrief ^
| December 16, 2001 | Tim McMillan
A galaxy just 600 million years old, nicknamed “Firefly Sparkle,” has recently been discovered thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), offering an unprecedented glimpse into the formation of galaxies like our own Milky Way. This low-mass galaxy, located 13.4 billion light-years away, provides a vivid snapshot of the early cosmos.
It showcases dense star clusters cocooned in gas and dust, which are akin to the building blocks of galaxies and offer clues to how larger structures like the Milky Way were born. The discovery, published in Nature and revealed by a team of Wellesley College-led astronomers, sheds light...
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James Webb Space Telescope Finds Stunning Evidence for Alternate Theory of Gravity
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The Debrief ^
| November 15, 2024 | Christopher Plain and Ryan Whalen
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope to peer back in time into the farthest reaches of the universe have found stunning evidence for an alternate theory of gravity. Current
models of galaxy formation in the early cosmos predict the presence of excess gravity caused by dark matter to pull material into slowly forming galaxies. However, an alternate theory of gravity first proposed in 1998 called Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) suggests that structures in the early universe formed very quickly without the need for theoretical dark matter. Now, researchers from Case Western Reserve University say that scans of ancient galaxies...
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James Webb Space Telescope Confirms Controversial ‘Hubble Tension’ in Most Extensive Study of Universal Expansion
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The Debrief ^
| December 09, 2024 | Christopher Plain
The James Webb Space Telescope (Credit: NASA) The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed controversial Hubble Telescope measurements that seemingly contradict the standard model of cosmology, giving rise to what is known as the ‘Hubble Tension,’ according to new findings involving the most extensive study of the universe’s expansion ever conducted. Confirmation
of the decades-long Hubble Tension, which reveals that the universe is expanding faster than cosmological models predict, has sent astrophysicists back to the drawing board in search of previously unknown physics that could account for the measurements, potentially rewriting the standard model. “The discrepancy between the observed expansion...
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James Webb Telescope Discovers Quasars Where They Shouldn’t Exist
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Scitech Daily ^
| October 21, 2024 | Jennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This image, taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, shows an ancient quasar (circled in red) with fewer than expected neighboring galaxies (bright blobs), challenging physicists’ understanding of how the first quasars and supermassive black holes formed. Credit:
Christina Eilers/EIGER team ======================================== Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to detect ancient lonely quasars with murky origins. They appear to have few cosmic neighbors, raising questions about how they first emerged more than 13 billion years ago. A quasar is an incredibly bright region at the center of a galaxy, powered by a supermassive black hole. As this black hole...
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James Webb Space Telescope Peers 13 Billion Years into the Past and Spots an Unusual ‘Inside-Out’ Galaxy
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The Debrief ^
| October 12, 2024 | Christopher Plain
The galaxy NGC 1549, seen 700 million years after the Big Bang. Credit: JADES Collaboration ======================================== Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted an ‘inside-out’ galaxy that formed around 13 billion years ago. Like
a large city, the galaxy has its densest collection of stars at its core. However, that density decreases as one moves from the city center to the galactic ‘suburbs,’ giving the galaxy its inside-out shape. Although scientists have seen similarly shaped galaxies form in the last 10 million years, the unique ability of the JWST to peer billions of years back in time has...
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James Webb Space Telescope Makes a Jaw-Dropping Discovery That Leaves Astronomers Seeing Double
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The Debrief ^
| August 6, 2024 | Micah Hanks
Artist's concept of twin stars near the end of their formation stages (U.S. NSF/NSF NRAO/B. Saxton). ======================================== A team of astronomers say they have made a jaw-dropping new discovery with help from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. According to new findings by Webb, NASA’s premiere space science observatory, and the Atacama Large
Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a distant celestial object once believed to represent a single star is actually a twin system. The discovery reveals that that WL 20S possesses gas and dust disks encircling each of the stars in the newly recognized twin system, features that point to the likelihood...
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