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Webb telescope may have found 13.5 billion-year-old galaxy
"We're potentially looking at the most distant starlight that anyone has ever seen," Rohan Naidu of Harvard Center for Astrophysics says of GLASS-z13, which…
How Pictures From NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Were Selected
Even reaching this point had taken decades of planning, threatened cancellations, delays upon delays, a pandemic and a round of harrowing reverse origami that was needed to unfold the telescope in deep space without breaking it. In…
The Reason NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Will Activate Astronomy’s Next Great Era
As a New Yorker, I'd say trying to spot a star from Times Square is a fool's errand. To catch even the faintest glimpse of one, you'd have to squint past fluorescent street lamps, flashing billboards, stock market tickers and other…
Dark Matter Remains Elusive – For Now – Sky & Telescope
This view looks up into the LZ Outer Detector, which is used to veto radioactivity that can mimic a dark matter signal. Matthew Kapust / Sanford Underground Research Facility
The first run of the most…
James Webb Space Telescope will study of the ‘ice giants’
NASA's next-generation space telescope has a blue-eyed special among its solar system observations.The James Webb Space Telescope will soon turn its attention to two intriguing "ice giants" — Uranus and Neptune — after releasing its…
Where Did the First Quasars Come From? – Sky & Telescope
Just 700 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was still in its infancy, we already see supermassive black holes with the heft of 1 billion Suns. How could they have grown so fast? A team of…
Astronomer Says New Webb Space Telescope Images “Almost Brought Him to Tears”
The evolution of infrared astronomy, from Spitzer to WISE to JWST. Credit: Andras GasparThe scientific and astronomical communities are eagerly waiting for Tuesday, July 12th, to come around. That is the day when <span…
Citizen Scientists Detect Dusty Disks – Sky & Telescope
The sheer wealth of data current missions generate can overwhelm professional astronomers, so in the past decade, research groups have increasingly relied on citizen scientists. One project that calls upon…
What we know about Light Pollution – and What We Don’t – Sky & Telescope
Most people don't have easy access to a view like this one. The International Dark-Sky Association declared Michigan's Top of the Pines an International Dark-Sky Park last year. Dark-sky places have policies…