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Stunning new Webb images: baby stars, colliding galaxies and hot exoplanets

Anticipation of future science grows as NASA releases unprecedented glimpses of the night sky.
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The views of the Universe just keep getting better. NASA’s US$10-billion James Webb Space Telescope released four new scientific images on 12 July, including newborn stars sparkling through dramatic ‘cliffs’ of gas, and galaxies interacting in an intricate cosmic dance. A day earlier, astronomers had marvelled at its very first image, a mind-boggling deep dive into the distant Universe.

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Nature 607, 429-430 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01931-5

Additional reporting by Max Kozlov and McKenzie Prillaman.

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  • Update 12 July 2022: This story was updated to include more commentary from astronomers.

  • Correction 13 July 2022: An earlier version of this story said that the exoplanet WASP-96b is around half the size of Jupiter (an editing error). It is around half the mass of Jupiter.

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