Webb Just Spotted Baby Stars Lighting Up Their Cosmic Nursery
A fresh James Webb Space Telescope image of FS Tau turns star birth into something families can picture: young suns glowing inside blue-violet clouds about 450 light-years away.
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The Comet That Was Already Old When Our Sun Was Born
Comet 3I/ATLAS sailed through our solar system carrying ice laid down 10 to 12 billion years ago — nearly three times the age of the Sun. The James Webb Space Telescope just read its chemical diary, and it tells a story older than everything you have ever known.
The Same Ghostly Chemical Note on Two Worlds: JWST's New Titan–Pluto Mystery
Saturn's hazy moon Titan and icy dwarf planet Pluto have nothing in common — except a 5.11-micrometer fingerprint that no lab on Earth can explain yet. The James Webb Space Telescope just made it even more fascinating.
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