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New Webb Telescope visualization lets you fly through the ancient universe in 3D

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New Webb Telescope visualization lets you fly through the ancient universe in 3D

Fasten your seatbelt for a flight through space, across thousands of galaxies, at 200 million light years per second. We’re pretty sure that’s faster than the Millenium Falcon can make Kessel Run. JWST recently took a deep look at a patch of space known as the Extended Groth Strip, which certainly looks like somewhere you’d … Leer más

James Webb Space Telescope detects violent collision between neutron stars

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An illustration of two neutron stars colliding and merging.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have traced an extremely bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) to its origin, a violent collision between two neutron stars. The ring on your finger likely contains atoms produced in neutron star collisions like this, also known as «kilonova». That’s because, as well as blowing up the GRB over … Leer más