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James Webb telescope discovers its first planet - a Saturn-size 'shepherd' still glowing red hot from its formation | Live Science
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How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy? | Space
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| | Megaconstellations like SpaceX's Starlink offer great benefits for humanity. But there are also costs, including a growing imposition on astronomy, experts say.
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This dwarf planet has gas: Makemake's methane surprises scientists | Space
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| | The James Webb Space Telescope has detected methane gas on the dwarf planet Makemake, indicating that the distant body is a dynamic icy world.
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Living lunch box? Iceland orcas are unexpectedly swimming with baby pilot whales, but it's unclear why. | Live Science
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| | Newborn pilot whales have been spotted mysteriously swimming among pods of orcas. Scientists are trying to puzzle out how the pilot whale calves got there and what happened to them.
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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...