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JWST has captured a sparkling galaxy full of intense star formation

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JWST has captured a sparkling galaxy full of intense star formation

The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy has some of the most extraordinary regions of star formation of any galaxy we have found, and the James Webb Space Telescope has snapped its picture

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It's springtime and the deployed primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope looks like a spring flower in full bloom. In this photo, NASA technicians lifted the telescope using a crane and moved it inside a clean room at NASA?s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Once launched into space, the Webb telescope?s 18-segmented gold mirror is specially designed to capture infrared light from the first galaxies that formed in the early universe, and will help the telescope peer inside dust clouds where stars and planetary systems are forming today. The James Webb Space Telescope is the scientific successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built. Webb is an international project led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.

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Faint distant galaxies spotted by JWST may be closer than they appear

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Illustration of Mars being bombarded with solar radiation

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Mars astronauts would get unsafe radiation doses even with shielding

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How to make a delicious chilli hot sauce by harnessing fermentation

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Why general relativity is known as a background independent theory

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IC 1623 is a pair of galaxies

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JWST has caught two galaxies smashing together and sparking starbursts

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JWST captures the most distant star ever seen in incredible detail

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The Cartwheel galaxy and its companion galaxies

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JWST has released a striking new image of the strange Cartwheel galaxy

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Galaxies in space

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JWST has spotted a weird, distant galaxy with almost no heavy elements

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Image printed on a flexible material

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Stretchy material could make bandages change colour when getting loose

A stretchy material developed for holograms and an obsolete photography technique from the 19th century have been combined to create a material that changes colour as its tension changes

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JWST could soon tell us what exoplanets' surfaces are made of

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JWST keeps breaking its own record for the most distant galaxy ever

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Mysterious light may come from the largest molecules found in space

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Reimagined bicarb volcano could spark your children's love for science

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