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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.