Since its launch on December 25, 2021 (quite a Christmas present!), the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) took the sharpest and most detailed images of the Universe, surpassing even its predecessor, the venerable The Hubble Space Telescope! But what’s particularly exciting are the kinds of sightings we can expect, where the JWST will use its …
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BALTIMORE — When the James Webb Space Telescope was first imagined, exoplanets hadn’t even been discovered yet. Now the observatory is showing astronomers what it can learn about planets orbiting other stars, including smaller ones. Since its launch in December 2021, JWST had already “sniffed” the atmospheres of Jupiter-sized planets orbiting extremely close to their …
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Using several highly sensitive instruments and sophisticated galaxy modeling, the researchers identified the galactic foci of 84 SGRBs and probed the characteristics of 69 of the identified host galaxies. Credit: Image by WM Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko The most robust inventory to date lists host galaxies and characteristics of SGRBs. Using observations and modeling, astronomers have …
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