Articles for tag: astrophysics, Cosmic Discovery, James Webb Telescope, Space

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The James Webb Telescope’s Latest Discovery That Shook Astronomy

Suhail Ahmed

  Sometimes a single spectral line can upend an entire field. In a hypothetical future scenario, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope might report phosphine – an unexpected, chemically tricky gas – in the atmosphere of the ancient, metal‑poor brown dwarf Wolf 1130C. Such a finding would stun researchers because phosphine had stubbornly eluded ...