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James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope

Astronomers see debris disk around young star Vega in unprecedented detail

composite image of the dust disk surrounding Vega, consisting of the Hubble image and the James Webb image

Winds of change: James Webb Space Telescope reveals elusive details in young star systems

This artist’s impression of a planet-forming disk surrounding a young star shows a swirling "pancake" of hot gas and dust from which planets form. Perpendicular to the disk and powered by magnetic fields, conical streams of gas blow out into space.

Astronomers catch a glimpse of a uniquely inflated and asymmetric exoplanet

Exoplanet illustrative image

James Webb Space Telescope captures the end of planet formation

This artist's illustration shows the surroundings of a young star, with gas and dust forming a swirling circumstellar disk.

Webb telescope takes its first images of forming planetary systems

Artist's concept depicting a young star surrounded by a dusty protoplanetary disk.

UArizona's Marcia Rieke wins $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize

Marcia Rieke

Steward Observatory alumna Jane Rigby receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

A scientist

Webb Telescope spots the two most distant galaxies ever seen at cosmic dawn

a collection of galaxies, with a pullout of one blurry reddish galaxy

'Mind-boggling' quasars and atmospheres of vaporized rock: UArizona astronomers explore cosmos with Webb Telescope

Artist’s impression of a high-redshift quasar as it would have appeared a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. Powered by a supermassive black hole at their center, such quasars can be 1000 times more luminous than the Milky Way galaxy.

Webb Telescope finds plethora of carbon molecules around young star

An artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a disk of gas and dust.

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