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JWST Cycle 4 Spotlight, Part 4: Stellar Populations and the Interstellar Medium

Universe Today 20 Mar 2025
Welcome back to our five-part examination of Webb's Cycle 4 General Observations program ... .
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Oxygen discovered in most distant galaxy ever seen: 'It is like finding an adolescent where ...

Space 20 Mar 2025
Astronomers have discovered oxygen and heavy elements in the earliest galaxy ever seen, suggesting some galaxies as early as 300 million years after the Big Bang matured early ....
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JWST Finds Its First Carbon Dioxide In Planets Outside The Solar System

IFL Science 18 Mar 2025
The JWST has spotted the presence of carbon dioxide on HR 8799’s four known planets, part of a system astronomers use to explore the formation of our own system ... Seeing the planets is one thing, but the JWST can go further.
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First-ever: Webb captures direct image of carbon dioxide outside solar system

Interesting Engineering 17 Mar 2025
The powerful James Webb Space Telescope is revealing the hidden complexities of exoplanets like never before. For the first time, Webb has captured “direct images” of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere located 130 light-years away ... .
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JWST Observations Hint We Might Be Inside A Black Hole, A New Synthetic Cannabinoid Could Pack A Painkilling Punch, And Much More This Week

IFL Science 15 Mar 2025
Unexpected JWST Observations Hint We Might Be Inside A Black Hole ... A new study looking at observations by the JWST of the early universe has thrown up a new and intriguing mystery; the majority of galaxies appear to be rotating in the same direction ... .
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Unexpected JWST Observations Hint We Might Be Inside A Black Hole

IFL Science 13 Mar 2025
A new study looking at observations by the JWST of the early universe has thrown up a new and intriguing mystery; the majority of galaxies appear to be rotating in the same direction ... The JWST has ...
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Webb’s Dazzling New Photo Shows Pair of Growing Stars

PetaPixel 12 Mar 2025
The James Webb Space Telescope's latest high-resolution photo shows Lynds 483 (L483), a pair of actively forming stars, in extraordinary and unprecedented detail. [Read More] ... .
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JWST explores enigmatic mid-infrared rings in planetary nebula NGC 1514

Phys Dot Org 10 Mar 2025
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have observed enigmatic rings in the planetary nebula NGC 1514, visible in the mid-infrared band ... with JWST's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).
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