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A millisecond flash from 3 billion years after the Big Bang just set the record as the farthest fast radio burst ever traced — and the tiny young galaxy Webb found at its source points the finger at a magnetar.
For the first time, Hubble and Webb joined forces to find 27 tiny icy worlds beyond Neptune — one just 5 km wide and as faint as fireflies on the Moon. Their colors reveal they still remember how the Solar System was built.
A new August 2026 image of the Tarantula Nebula layers data from Chandra, Webb, and Hubble to show not just beauty, but how one of our nearest giant star nurseries leaks heat, mixes gas, and keeps building future stars.
Webb’s new look at IRS 3 shows oxygen-rich dust and a clear water signal surviving astonishingly close to the Milky Way’s central black hole. It is a bright, fact-rich reminder that even extreme corners of the galaxy are still busy making the ingredients for future worlds.
NASA and ESA’s new Webb view of NGC 2392 turns a short-lived planetary nebula into one of August’s most joyful space stories: a lion-faced cloud about 5,000 light-years away, shaped by a Sun-like star in its final bright chapter.
A newly confirmed planet in the Beta Pictoris system was not first spotted as a clean bright dot. Instead, astronomers read its atmospheric fingerprint, then watched one of the sky’s most famous young systems become even more exciting.
Astronomers have added a third world to the famous Beta Pictoris system, and the new arrival makes this young planetary family even more exciting. Beta Pictoris d is faint, warm, and wide-orbiting — a giant planet that spent more than a decade hiding in data before finally stepping into view.
The James Webb Space Telescope has turned WD 1856 b into a bright lesson in planetary resilience: a Jupiter-sized world, an Earth-sized white dwarf, and a transit that reveals heat, haze, and methane.
A faint new world, Beta Pictoris d, has stepped into view thanks to Webb’s clever infrared eye. The discovery turns a bright star system into a beautiful lesson in how astronomers find planets by reading light.
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