The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

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Scientists have developed an impossibly thin telescope lens that addresses a key astronomical challenge in a new study funded ...

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Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...