james Webb Space Telescope

The telescope is an amazing leap forward, and it gives us a unique ability to understand our cosmos.

Over the last few months, there have been some amazing discoveries that I'd like to share:

1. They managed to capture the before and after of a supernova.  It was a fortuitous moment, but it will help us to understand how these events occur.
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2.  They captured two black holes orbiting each other; something that had never been detected previously.
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3. Following the black hole notion, they saw a black hole that "tore through" a galaxy and left a scar.
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4. Astronomers think they have found a new kind of dark energy, and in this case, they believe it powers a star - contrary to what we thought we knew about dark energy
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5. NASA made an estimate of the size of a celestial object (3I/Atlas - one of those "mystery objects" we detected).  The JWST looked at it more closely and the astronomers determined it was much larger than they estimated; it’s nearly twice as big as earth. And, they were able to obtain chemical readings of the object, in order to better assess & understand what it is.
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Its truly amazing what we are able to do and see using this telescope.