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NASA's Webb Makes the Distant Universe Dream Come True - NASA Science
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The Truth About Hubble, JWST, and False Color | NASA Blueshift
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| | I get a lot of questions asking why the James Webb Space Telescope is infrared, and how its images can hope to compare to the (primarily) optical Hubble Space Telescope. Why would NASA build something that isn't going to capture beautiful images exactly like Hubble does? The short answer to this is that JWST will absolutely capture beautiful images of the universe, even if it won't see exactly what Hubble does. (Spoiler: it will see a lot of things even better.) There are legit scientific reasons for JWS...
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Rare string of 'cosmic pearls' dance together in the universe | Space
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| | A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls.
| | interestingengineering.com
Largest nova super-remnant ever found, measures 650 light-years across
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| | A massive, shell-like structure, the largest of its kind ever found, has been discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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NASA's Webb telescope identifies tiniest free-floating brown dwarf | Penn State University
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| Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified the new record-holder for the smallest object that forms like a star: a tiny free-floating brown dwarf. Penn State researchers led the discovery.