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The James Webb telescope

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JWST reveals young star that may be about to give birth to a planet

Spectral information from the James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled chemicals inside a protostar that hint it is in the process of forming planets

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SLS is ready for launch

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Artemis I livestream: Watch NASA's historic SLS rocket launch

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JWST found carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere – and a mystery

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JWST found carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere – and a mystery

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JWST's images of the cosmos should be for all, not just astronomers

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JWST's images of the cosmos should be for all, not just astronomers

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The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft on top at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida

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NASA is finally ready to launch the huge SLS rocket for the first time

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Webb NIRCam composite image of Jupiter from three filters ? F360M (red), F212N (yellow-green), and F150W2 (cyan) ? and alignment due to the planet's rotation.

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JWST has taken even more beautiful images of Jupiter and its aurora

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JWST has captured a sparkling galaxy full of intense star formation

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JWST has captured a sparkling galaxy full of intense star formation

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It's springtime and the deployed primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope looks like a spring flower in full bloom. In this photo, NASA technicians lifted the telescope using a crane and moved it inside a clean room at NASA?s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Once launched into space, the Webb telescope?s 18-segmented gold mirror is specially designed to capture infrared light from the first galaxies that formed in the early universe, and will help the telescope peer inside dust clouds where stars and planetary systems are forming today. The James Webb Space Telescope is the scientific successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built. Webb is an international project led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.

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Faint distant galaxies spotted by JWST may be closer than they appear

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Illustration of Mars being bombarded with solar radiation

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Mars astronauts would get unsafe radiation doses even with shielding

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A98A62 Ranulph Fiennes manhauling a sledge North Pole Unsupported Expedition 1990

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Explorer review: The amazing story of adventurer Ranulph Fiennes

An intriguing documentary about the life and adventures of Ranulph Fiennes, one of the last hero-explorers of our time, packs an altogether different punch at the end, discovers Simon Ings

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Why general relativity is known as a background independent theory

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JWST has caught two galaxies smashing together and sparking starbursts

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JWST captures the most distant star ever seen in incredible detail

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JWST has released a striking new image of the strange Cartwheel galaxy

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