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The two halves of Hubble’s $10 billion successor have finally come together after 12 years of waiting
The two halves of the next-generation space telescope have come together for the first time ev…
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NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope reached its destination 1 million miles from Earth
The telescope will begin to capture images this summer and is set to fill in the gaps of the histor…
Rebecca Cohen
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NASA successfully completes unfolding of James Webb space telescope, which has been hailed as a groundbreaking achievement
The US space agency fully deployed its James Webb Telescope, including a gold-plated hexagonal mirr…
Zahra Tayeb
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Watch NASA launch its $10 billion, game-changing James Webb Space Telescope on Christmas morning
Webb could revolutionize astronomy by spotting the universe's first galaxies. But the telescope has…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA launches its long-awaited $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, kicking off a cosmic revolution
NASA's biggest space telescope has faced about a decade of delays and budget cuts. It finally screa…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A broken clamp rattled NASA's new $10 billion space telescope, risking damage just weeks before launch
NASA pushed back the James Webb Space Telescope's December launch by four days after a clamp broke …
Francis Agustin,Morgan McFall…
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NASA advisor quits after the agency keeps a $10 billion telescope named after James Webb, who was a senior State Department official during the persecution of gay and lesbian government employees
More than 1,200 people, including NASA advisor Lucianne Walkowicz, signed an open petition calling …
Kate Duffy
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New James Webb Space Telescope image shows 45,000 galaxies in unprecedented detail
The James Webb Space Telescope turned its sights on a special region in space, where it has reveale…
Jessica Orwig
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New image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows thousands upon thousands of stars in a galaxy 17 million light years away
The James Webb Space Telescope is peering into the mysterious hearts of galaxies. Most recently, it…
Jessica Orwig
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The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has to unfold itself in space — a nail-biting maneuver NASA's never attempted
Launching NASA's most valuable observatory is stressful enough, but Webb must also unfold itself in…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Giant Honeycomb Will Peer Back Deeper Into Space Than Ever Before
The James Webb isn't a replacement to the Hubble, although it will be able to look farther back in …
Dina Spector
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The James Webb Space Telescope is astronomy's shiny new toy, but the Hubble Space Telescope isn't old news — it's at its scientific peak
Because Webb looks at the universe in infrared, it will miss celestial objects in the visible and u…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured a side view of a galaxy that 'photobombed' a planetary nebula
The telescope, which is 100 times more powerful than Hubble, caught a side view of a far-flung gala…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spots a rare star preparing to explode and die in a supernova
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted a star revving up to die, expelling clouds of cosmic dust th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Side-by-side images of the 'Pillars of Creation' show Webb's power. It captured the famous stellar nursery overflowing with stars, which Hubble couldn't make out.
Hubble took the first photo of the Pillars of Creation in 1995. Decades later, Webb captured its cl…