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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just solved a 20-year-old mystery about how ancient stars could host massive planets. In the early 2000s, the Hubble Space Telescope observed the oldest ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected the oldest "dead" galaxy ever observed, at just 700 million years after the Big Bang. The stalled-out relic defies explanation by our ...

About 20 years ago, scientists used the powerful Hubble telescope to look at the oldest-known exoplanet in space.. How this gas giant, about 2.5 times the mass of Jupiter, could have come to be ...

SCOTT DETROW, HOST: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed yet another marvel from deep in outer space. A galaxy named MoM-z14 has taken the title of most distant galaxy the telescope has ...

Uh, we're looking at the telescope here, the old refractor. [Jim Lattis at Washburn Observatory]: And so, uh, Jim Lattice, uh, UW space place is the best title.

Optical sciences professor John Greivenkamp thought students were in danger of losing the connection to their field's beginnings. It was time to start collecting old telescopes to connect them ...

SCOTT DETROW, HOST: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed yet another marvel from deep in outer space. A galaxy named MoM-z14 has taken the title of most distant galaxy the telescope has ...