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How the James Webb Space Telescope is helping size up tiny dwarf planets
A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects ...
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How the James Webb Space Telescope is helping size up tiny dwarf planets
"Studying them helps scientists understand how planets formed and evolved." Recent near-infrared spectroscopic studies carried out by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) found that Pluto ...
Webb telescope images of exoplanets "stunned researchers," offer insight into carbon dioxide, NASA says
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
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What Was the First Planet Discovered With a Telescope?
Most Planets Have No Known Date of First Observation . Before we begin, I want you to imagine a clear night sky you've ...
Which planet has the most moons? Saturn dethrones Jupiter.
The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...
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Webb telescope's images of exoplanets "stunned researchers," NASA says
Last year, the Webb telescope discovered carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. Balmer hopes to use Webb to observe more four-planet systems ...
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What Makes a Moon?
Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...
No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope
Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...