33 h. ago James Webb telescope spots super rare 'Cosmic Owl' structure

This stunning image dubbed 'Cosmic Owl' captures a remarkable moment in deep space, billions of light years away.

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8 d. ago NASA captures unprecedented image of 'lightest planet ever seen'

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted TWA 7b, a Saturn-sized exoplanet around a nearby star

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9 d. ago Brazil’s last asbestos miners are switching to rare earth minerals. Can they offer a brighter future?

The small city of Minaçu is hoping to challenge China’s dominance in servicing the global appetite for minerals key to the green energy transitionMinaçu, a small city in inland Brazil and home to the only asbestos mine in the Americas, is set to become the first operation outside Asia to produce four rare earths on a commercial scale – a group of minerals key to the energy transition at the centre of the trade dispute between China and the US.Until now, China has dominated the separation of rare earths, and accounts for 90% of the manufacture of rare-earth magnets, or super magnets, which are made with these elements and used in electric cars, wind turbines and military equipment such as jets. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago James Webb telescope captures its first direct image of a glowing exoplanet the size of Saturn

For the first time ever, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured an unprecedented image of an exoplanet outside our solar system.

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2 w. ago NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just found its first exoplanet

The planet is 110 light-years away from Earth and has the smallest mass observed by direct imagery

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2 w. ago James Webb telescope captures unprecedented direct images of exoplanet

About the mass of Saturn and 110m light years from Earth, TWA 7 b provides insights into an infant planetary systemThe James Webb space telescope has captured unprecedented direct images of a planet beyond our own solar system in its first exoplanet discovery.The observations reveal a planet, called TWA 7 b, carving its way through a disc of glowing dust and rocky debris in orbit around a star 110m light years from Earth. About the mass of Saturn, the planet is 10 times less massive than any previous exoplanet to be directly observed with a telescope and provides fresh insights into a planetary system in its infancy. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Strawberry Moon in pictures as spectacle lights up Scottish skies for last time until 2043

Scots captured breathtaking photos of the super-rare cosmic event that we were lucky to see this week

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