Articles for tag: astrophysics, Cosmic Discoveries, early universe, James Webb Telescope, Space exploration

How The James Webb Telescope Is Revealing the Universe's Hidden Beginnings

How The James Webb Telescope Is Revealing the Universe’s Hidden Beginnings

Andrew Alpin

You might think you know space, that you’ve seen most of what the cosmos has to offer through decades of astronomical discoveries. However, the James Webb Space Telescope is proving just how wrong we all were about the universe’s earliest chapters. This revolutionary observatory is uncovering secrets that are forcing scientists to completely rewrite the ...

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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 ...