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With its ability to peer through gas and dust enshrouding newborn stars, @NASAWebb is helping us better understand star formation to see star-forming regions — such as galaxy NGC 5068 — as never before: http://bit.ly/42jAp8f
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Webb peers behind bars

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400 light-years from Earth a gas giant exoplanet orbits its star in less than a day. WASP-18 b, seen in an illustration, is 10 times more massive than Jupiter. @NASAWebb took a look and found water vapor and made a temperature map (it's HOT). http://go.nasa.gov/42aAivX
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Discovery Alert: Webb Maps and Finds Traces of Water in an Ultra-hot Gas Giant's Atmosphere

Scientists used the Webb Telescope identified water vapor in the atmosphere of WASP-18 b, and made a temperature map of the planet as it slipped behind, and reappeared from, its star.
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We've studied the exoplanet WASP-18 b with @NASAHubble, @chandraxray and other telescopes, and now we've looked with @NASAWebb, which measured water at different elevations in the ultra-hot gas giant's atmosphere! http://go.nasa.gov/42aAivX
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Discovery Alert: Webb Maps and Finds Traces of Water in an Ultra-hot Gas Giant's Atmosphere

Scientists used the Webb Telescope identified water vapor in the atmosphere of WASP-18 b, and made a temperature map of the planet as it slipped behind, and reappeared from, its star.
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Discovery Alert! 📣
@NASAWebb viewed an exoplanet eclipse and made a brightness map of a well-known world. From these measurements, scientists mapped WASP-18 b's day side temperatures, showing a range of 2,800 to 4,800 degrees F (1,500 to 2,600 C). https://go.nasa.gov/42aAivX
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Discovery Alert: Webb Maps and Finds Traces of Water in an Ultra-hot Gas Giant's Atmosphere

Scientists used the Webb Telescope identified water vapor in the atmosphere of WASP-18 b, and made a temperature map of the planet as it slipped behind, and reappeared from, its star.
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On this Memorial Day, we are thinking of those who served and sacrificed all. We lift our gaze to the heavens in their honor.
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Clouds of vaporized rock, and perhaps even glittering gems, could fill the skies of some distant worlds. Now add howling winds and broiling temperatures so hot they'd tear molecules apart. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1709/exoplanet-clouds-jewels-of-new-knowledge/
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Exoplanet Clouds: 'Jewels' of New Knowledge

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will take aim at exoplanet clouds, revealing secrets of their atmospheres.
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We certainly know where we'd like to visit!
Check out our Exoplanet Travel Bureau: http://exoplanets.nasa.gov/travel/
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Take a virtual trip with NASA

Book your trip to the imagined surfaces of planets outside our solar system, with NASA's interactive Exoplanet Travel Bureau
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Violet Delights
Spiral galaxy Messier 74 is about 32 million light-years away. Here, @NASAWebb outlines gas and dust in infrared while @Chandraxray spotlights high-energy activity from stars. @NASAHubble shows additional stars and dust in visible light. https://go.nasa.gov/3Mz7Pds
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NASA's Chandra, Webb Combine for Arresting Views

Four composite images deliver dazzling views from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope of two galaxies, a nebula, and a star cluster.
Lee Mohon (NASA)
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'Quenching in purple' 💜
A star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, ~200,000 light-years away, glows with arcs of the material that stars and planets need to form. The purple cloud at left is the remains of a supernova explosion from a massive star. https://go.nasa.gov/3qdG8z5
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NASA's Chandra, Webb Combine for Arresting Views

Four composite images deliver dazzling views from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope of two galaxies, a nebula, and a star cluster.
Lee Mohon (NASA)
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The Pillars of Creation's columns shroud fledgling stars just being formed. Red and blue dots are new stars that give off copious amounts of X-rays. @chandraxray's data is combined here with @NASAWebb's infrared for a more complete – and beautiful – view. https://s.si.edu/chandrawebb2
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Chandra :: Photo Album :: Chandra and Webb :: May 23, 2023

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Discovery, discovery, discovery Alert! 📣
72 planets were added to the known worlds, bringing our total to 5,419! Most of the new planets were detected with the help of @NASAAmes supercomputers & validated with new machine learning tools! More: https://go.nasa.gov/42YUKkC
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New Deep Learning Method Adds 301 Planets to Kepler's Total Count

A new machine-learning method yields 301 new exoplanet discoveries from the retired Kepler Space Telescope.
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In the time of the dinosaurs, Saturn may not yet have acquired its iconic rings – and future Earth dwellers may someday know a world without them.
#MondayMotivation: The right time might just be now! https://go.nasa.gov/42ePyrL
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Saturn’s Rings: Young and Ephemeral, Three NASA Ames Studies Say

Three recent studies by scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley examine data from NASA’s Cassini mission and provide evidence that Saturn’s rings are both young and ephemeral – in astronomical terms, of course.
Abigail Tabor (NASA)
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About 90 light-years from Earth, there's an exoplanet blanketed in volcanos. That volcanic activity means it could have an atmosphere on its cooler night side. http://go.nasa.gov/456E9gb
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NASA’s Spitzer, TESS Find Potentially Volcano-Covered Earth-Size World

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size exoplanet, or world beyond our solar system, that may be carpeted with volcanoes.
Jeanette Kazmierczak (NASA)
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A vast galaxy cluster lurks in the center of this image from @NASAHubble. The cluster’s enormous mass curves spacetime, creating a gravitational lens that bends the light from distant galaxies. Contorted streaks and arcs of light are the result. https://go.nasa.gov/3pZSivm
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Hubble Captures a Light-Bending Galaxy Cluster

A vast galaxy cluster lurks in the center of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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We can’t hear it, but stars are performing a concert, one that never stops. The biggest stars make the lowest, deepest sounds, like tubas and double basses. Small stars have high-pitched voices, like celestial flutes. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1516/symphony-of-stars-the-science-of-stellar-sound-waves/
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Symphony of stars: The science of stellar sound waves

The stars are performing a concert as sound waves travel through them. Telescopes sensitive to stellar vibrations help scientists learn a lot about stars, as well as their planets.
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☄️ @NASAWebb confirmed water vapor around a comet in the main asteroid belt. This suggests that ice from the primordial solar system can be preserved there — a breakthrough in searching for water and systems on their way to hosting planets like Earth: https://go.nasa.gov/3BucEzm
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Some exoplanets are so close to their stars that they're tidally locked, meaning the same side, called the dayside, gets every bit of light. Sound familiar? Happy #MothersDay!
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There are all kinds of galaxies out there, just as there are all kinds of moms. Some would love a rose made of two entwined galaxies, others might prefer a lightsaber (or a galaxy seen edge-on). You can't go wrong with both! Happy #MothersDay!
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A bright star, visible in Earth’s Southern sky, has a secret. The well known Fomalhaut debris disk, imaged here by @NASAWebb, has an asteroid belt, inner rings and an undulating structure that hints at unseen planets! http://go.nasa.gov/42dH7h6
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Webb Looks for Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More

Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the first asteroid belt ever seen outside of our solar system in infrared light.
Jamie Adkins (NASA)
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300 light-years from Earth, two planets still glowing from formation 17 million years ago, were directly imaged. We can't see exoplanets beyond a few pixels of light because of the distances. But what glorious light! (Seen with the star, at upper left.) https://go.nasa.gov/41wPxin
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Discovery Alert: See the Image – 2 Planets Orbit a Sun-like Star

Astronomers have captured a direct image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, the first of its kind.
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A blip in brightness & a world's demise
Astronomers saw a flash in a sky survey, and found it again in infrared: the first direct observation of a star devouring a planet. Our Sun, and perhaps our planet, will face a similar fate in 5 billion years. https://go.nasa.gov/42fREYs
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Caught in the Act: Astronomers Detect a Star Devouring a Planet

A star nearing the end of its life swelled up and absorbed a Jupiter-size planet. In about 5 billion years, our Sun will go through a similar end-of-life transition.
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A distant planet outside our solar system – and unlike anything in it – gets a look by @NASAWebb. It’s the closest look yet at the mysterious world, a “mini-Neptune” that was largely impenetrable to previous observations! https://go.nasa.gov/42IoS2V
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NASA's Webb Takes Closest Look Yet at Mysterious Planet

New data from NASA's Webb space telescope reveals new details about a strange but common planet type, a 'mini-Neptune.'
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Five planets are locked in a rhythmic dance around their Sun-like star. It's one of the best examples we have of orbital resonance, where the planets move in synchronicity. There's also evidence of a sixth world in this cosmic ballroom!💃🏾 https://go.nasa.gov/42L7DOJ
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Discovery Alert: The Rhythmic Dance of a 5-planet System

A newly discovered system of at least five planets, and probably six, moves in gravitational harmony around a Sun-like star.
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What's YOUR favorite planet? There are eight in our solar system and billions beyond, and we've confirmed 5,347 of them. So, if you don't have a favorite yet, stay tuned! Maybe we're still looking for it? http://Exoplanets.nasa.gov
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Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, the search for planets and life beyond our solar system.
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Our first look at an asteroid belt beyond our solar system, revealed in this @NASAWebb image of Fomalhaut, shows an outer ring extending out 14 billion miles (23 billion km). Two other rings are nestled within. The structure indicates planets at play. http://go.nasa.gov/42dH7h6
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Webb Looks for Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More

Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the first asteroid belt ever seen outside of our solar system in infrared light.
Jamie Adkins (NASA)
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A bright star, visible in Earth’s Southern sky, has a secret. The well known Fomalhaut debris disk, imaged by @NASAWebb, has inner rings and an undulating structure that hints at unseen planets. https://go.nasa.gov/42dH7h6
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Webb Looks for Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More

Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the first asteroid belt ever seen outside of our solar system in infrared light.
Jamie Adkins (NASA)
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We’ve found exoplanets with two, or even three, suns. What could conditions on those planets be like? We checked in with exoplanet scientists to see: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1430/earth-sized-tatooine-planets-could-be-habitable/
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Earth-sized 'Tatooine' planets could be habitable

A new study explores potential climates of a planet orbiting two suns.
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On a world with two suns, every sunset would be doubled and you’d move with two shadows. On #StarWarsDay, get our poster and take @nasa’s guided tour… of Kepler-16 b! http://exoplanets.nasa.gov/travel
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Take a virtual trip with NASA

Book your trip to the imagined surfaces of planets outside our solar system, with NASA's interactive Exoplanet Travel Bureau
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Who needs a galaxy far, far away? We’ve found 8 real exoplanets in the Milky Way that remind us of #StarWars worlds… #Maythe4th https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/239/meet-8-star-wars-planets-in-our-own-galaxy/
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Meet 8 'Star Wars' Planets in Our Own Galaxy

The fantastical planets in Star Wars preceded our discovery of real planets outside our solar system...but the facts aren't far from fiction.
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Do you know more about real planets discovered beyond our solar system or the worlds of #StarWars? Take our quiz to see! Discover if you're a Padawan … or a Jedi Master. Show us your certificate, and, as always, #MayThe4thBeWithYou https://go.nasa.gov/35sq52a
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Star Wars: Fact or Fiction?

Do you know more about the Milky Way, or a galaxy far, far away? Test your knowledge and discover if you're a Padawan … or a Jedi Master.
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At the end of its life, our Sun will swell into a red giant, gobbling Mercury, Venus, and, maybe, Earth – in about 5 billion years. Scientists are getting a preview as a hungry star is consuming a Jupiter-sized world in our galaxy. https://go.nasa.gov/42fREYs
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Caught in the Act: Astronomers Detect a Star Devouring a Planet

A star nearing the end of its life swelled up and absorbed a Jupiter-size planet. In about 5 billion years, our Sun will go through a similar end-of-life transition.
Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
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It's #BlackHoleWeek! Have you been sucked in yet? Maybe you need more pieces of flair? We can help! Brush up on black hole science: https://go.nasa.gov/3LLbh5u
Find your flair: https://go.nasa.gov/3LoSFGT
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Basics | Black Holes – NASA Universe Exploration

A black hole is so dense that gravity just beneath its surface, the event horizon, is strong enough that nothing – not even light – can escape. The event horizon isn’t a surface like Earth’s or even the Sun’s.
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Welcome to #BlackHoleWeek!
Most galaxies, like our Milky Way, have black holes at their centers. This computer-simulated image shows what that might look like. In the center is the black hole’s event horizon, where no light can escape.
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Basics | Black Holes – NASA Universe Exploration

A black hole is so dense that gravity just beneath its surface, the event horizon, is strong enough that nothing – not even light – can escape. The event horizon isn’t a surface like Earth’s or even the Sun’s.
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Could a water signature be coming from a star?! When @NASAWebb studied the exoplanet GJ 486 b and its host star, it saw H2O. On the planet, it would indicate an atmosphere. The water could also be vapor lingering in a cooler sunspot of its red dwarf star! https://go.nasa.gov/40UaRy1
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Webb Finds Water Vapor, But From a Rocky Planet or Its Star?

Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study a rocky exoplanet known as GJ 486 b, and their observations using Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) show hints of water vapor.
Jessica Evans (NASA)
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Even stars like our Sun can harbor water vapor in sunspots because these areas are cool compared to the surrounding surface. GJ 486 b’s host star is much cooler than the Sun, so even more water vapor could concentrate within its spots. @NASAWebb followup will tell us more.
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From 260 million light-years away, @NASAHubble shows us the galaxy UGC 678, in the constellation Pisces, almost face on, allowing its winding spiral arms to stretch. In the foreground, a smaller edge-on galaxy seems to bisect the upper portion of UGC 678. https://go.nasa.gov/3KV6611
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Hubble Spotlights a Swirling Spiral

The barred spiral galaxy UGC 678 takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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The exoplanet GJ 1252 b is 65 light-years away, and has a scorching dayside temperature estimated to reach 2,242 degrees Fahrenheit (1228 degrees Celsius). In fact, GJ 1252 b is so hot that gold, silver, and copper would all melt on the planet. https://go.nasa.gov/422EHBX
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Discovery Alert: Ultra-hot 'Super-Earth' Could Have No Atmosphere

A new study of the "super-Earth" GJ 1252 b shows that the planet likely has a very minimal atmosphere or, possibly, no atmosphere at all.
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You know what we love? Exoplanets! And, we're just going to say it, we love you, too. So, here are some of our favorite exoplanets. For YOU! https://go.nasa.gov/3Nf0SQG
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Strange New

A world with two suns, a lava world and an "Earth cousin" are just some of the exoplanets we've discovered.
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It should be noted that all of the images in the gallery are artist concepts. We have no images of exoplanet surfaces beyond a few pixels of light, so we pair our scientists with artists to create images based on what we do know. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1605/observing-exoplanets-what-can-we-really-see/
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Observing Exoplanets: What Can We Really See?

Exoplanets are far away, and they are often obscured by the bright light of the stars they orbit. So, taking pictures of them the same way you'd take pictures of, say, Jupiter or Venus, isn't easy.
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These 7 spotlighted galaxies are so far away, their light took ~13 billion years to reach us, via @NASAWebb, which was also used to measure their velocities (more than 2 million mph!). https://go.nasa.gov/3V5UEnZ
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Webb Reveals Early-Universe Prequel to Huge Galaxy Cluster

NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed, for the first time, a protocluster of seven galaxies at a distance that astronomers refer to as redshift 7.9, or a mere 650 million years after the big bang.
Isabelle Yan (NASA)
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