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31 Oldest Quasars Ever Found: Universe Was Just 5% Its Age
ESA's Euclid telescope discovered 31 ancient quasars — two formed just 670 million years after the Big Bang, the oldest ever observed, shining with the light of a trillion suns.
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JWST Cracks the 'Pink Planet' Mystery: Salt Clouds 57 Light-Years Away
The James Webb Space Telescope has finally peered inside GJ 504b, a strange pink-hued world orbiting a sun-like star, and found something never confirmed before in such an object: skies laced with salt.
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JWST Solves Saturn's 20-Year Spin Mystery: It's the Aurora
James Webb Telescope data shows Saturn's shifting rotation rate isn't the planet — it's a self-sustaining cycle of auroras, winds, and electrical currents driving its upper atmosphere.
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JWST Just Read the Surface of a Distant Planet for the First Time
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to directly characterize the rocky surface of LHS 3844 b — a tidally locked super-Earth 49 light-years away — confirming it is a barren, atmosphere-free world.
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JWST Spots Water-Ice Clouds on a Jupiter-Like World 12 Light-Years Away
The James Webb Space Telescope directly imaged Epsilon Indi Ab, a cool gas giant near Earth's neighborhood, and found water-ice clouds where current models said there shouldn't be any.
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Webb Telescope Discovers a Bizarre 'Sulfur World' — A Brand-New Type of Exoplanet
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an entirely new class of exoplanet: a sulfur-drenched world with a molten interior, just 35 light-years from Earth.