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Galaxies don't float around randomly. They line up along thread-like structures called filaments, tied together at knots called galaxy clusters. JWST's COSMOS-Web survey has now produced the highest-resolution map of this cosmic web ever made, reaching back to just one billion years after the Big Bang.
Galaxies aren't scattered randomly through space. JWST's COSMOS-Web survey used 164,000 galaxies to chart the cosmic web in unprecedented detail — and the implications are remarkable. From SORABUMI.
A massive galaxy with barely any rotation has been discovered just 1.8 billion years after the Big Bang. JWST's observations are quietly dismantling the assumption that young galaxies always spin.
Just 300 million years after the Big Bang, a galaxy rivaling the Milky Way in 'maturity' already existed. JADES-GS-z14-0, discovered by JWST, is challenging the foundations of cosmology.
JWST, SOHO, Euclid — they all live at something called a Lagrange point, a gravitationally sweet spot 1.5 million km from Earth. Why send expensive telescopes all the way out there? Here's how the solar system's cosmic parking lots actually work.
A spiral galaxy nearly identical to the Milky Way was found just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. Here's what JWST's stunning discovery means for galaxy formation — and why the old theories are struggling to keep up.
JWST detected a thick atmosphere on TOI-561 b, a scorching rocky planet orbiting its star in just 11 hours. Here's why an atmosphere can survive in that environment — and why the discovery changes everything about how we study exoplanets.
The James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope observed Saturn at nearly the same time. What infrared and visible light each uncovered tells us something profound about how planets are built.
When a galaxy plunges into a cluster, superheated gas blasts it into something that looks eerily like a jellyfish. Here's how ram pressure stripping works — and what JWST found 8.5 billion years back.
Benzene has been found in space. Amino acids and nucleobases hitchhike on comets. Organic molecules are everywhere. So why does life seem to exist only on Earth? JWST's latest observations are forcing us to rethink the enormous gap between raw ingredients and living things.