James Webb Space Telescope spots dark matter halo within rare Einstein cross

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible ...
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Sunrise silhouettes the world's largest telescope | Space photo of the day for Sept. 17, 2025

Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our ...
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Are 'little red dots' seen by the James Webb Space Telescope actually elusive 'black hole stars'?

"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, ...
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James Webb telescope's 'starlit mountaintop' could be the observatory's best image yet — Space photo of the week

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured infant stars carving peaks of dust and gas in the Pismis 24 star cluster.

Webb discovers 'The Cliff' object that could solve red dot mystery

A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James ...

NASA’s Hubble Telescope spots white dwarf consuming Pluto-like feature

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has detected a white dwarf star that consumed fragments of a Pluto-like object. Space ...
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James Webb Space Telescope's Amazing View Of Most Distant Star

Take a journey to the James Webb Space Telescope's stunning view of giant galaxy cluster WHL0137-08. Credit: Space.com | zoom ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope reveals supermassive black holes forming far earlier than expected, raising questions about primordial origins

Supermassive black holes discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early universe challenge traditional formation ...
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James Webb Space Telescope's First Targets

NASA released full color James Webb Space Telescope images of the Carina Nebula, exoplanet WASP-96 b, Southern Ring Nebula, ...

In another star system, a Pluto-like world survived until the bitter end

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away ...

Strange red dots in the early universe may be new kind of space object

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

Earthquake in space research: James Webb and Hubble telescopes confirm that the universe is expanding in two different directions

Through the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Telescope, it has been possible to confirm the expansion of the ...