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☆ A Harvard professor is risking his reputation to search for aliens. Tech tycoons are bankrolling his quest.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +26 min

The Harvard professor's research is bankrolled by tech tycoons "pissed off" at academia's dogma. But this boundary-pushing is exactly why he's backed Loeb's research. AdvertisementDesch, the astrophysicist from Arizona University, posted a critique of Loeb's work on arXiv alleging "multiple fatal flaws with the manuscript's arguments." Asked whether he no longer believes in a possible technological origin for the meteor, Loeb said they need to investigate further. As he plans more extravagant expeditions to prove the origin of the interstellar meteor, Loeb likens his critics to crows pecking at the neck of an eagle.

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☆ NASA's James Webb telescope spotted a strange 13 billion-year-old galaxy that shouldn't exist
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

NASA's new space telescope spotted a 13 billion-year-old galaxy that is much too complex to exist that early in the universe. The galaxy, which is bigger than the Milky Way, could upheave what we know about how dark matter shaped the early universe. Light travels at a fixed speed through space, so the image of these early galaxies in the past is only reaching us now. According to current cosmology models, that should not be possible because dark matter is not supposed to have been mature enough at that time. "This dark matter — we don't know what it actually is —started out really smooth, with only the tiniest of ripples.

Persons: —, Karl Glazebrook, James Webb, Ivo Labbe, Swinburne University of Technology —, Labbe, Claudia Lagos, it's Organizations: Service, Swinburne University of Technology, Telescope, Reuters, University of Western Locations: University of Western Australia

☆ NASA's James Webb telescope spotted the most distant galaxy in the universe that looks like ours
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted the most distant example of a galaxy in the universe that looks similar to the Milky Way. The galaxy, named ceers-2112, is more than 11.7 billion years old and is the earliest example of a barred spiral galaxy ever seen. For them, there is little doubt: this picture suggests this is a barred spiral galaxy. Scientists had thought you couldn't find a barred spiral galaxy before the universe was about 6.9 billion years old. The other 95% — about 27% of dark matter and 68% of dark energy — remain huge mysteries in physics.

Persons: James Webb, —, JWST, Guo, Alexander de la Vega, Yetli Rosas Guevara, El País, la Vega, Luca Costantin, Space.com, Costantin, Jairo Abreu, Abreu Organizations: Service, James Webb Space, University of California, Spanish Donostia, Physics Center, Centro, Astrobiología, University of La Locations: Riverside, Madrid, University of La Laguna

☆ NASA's James Webb Space Telescope imaged a stunning supernova remnant and revealed details Hubble couldn't capture
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

NASA's James Webb Telescope has captured never-before-seen details of the Crab Nebula. AdvertisementAdvertisementNASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured new views of a stunning nebula, revealing never-before-seen details. It's the heart of the Crab Nebula, called the Crab Pulsar. The Crab Nebula as shown by the Hubble Space Telescope in optical light (left) and the James Webb Space Telescope in infrared light (right). The Crab Nebula photographed by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Persons: NASA's James Webb, —, James Webb, JWST, Temim, Hubble, Hester Organizations: NASA's James Webb Telescope, Service, Telescope, NASA, ESA, CSA, Princeton University, Hubble, James Webb Space, Arizona State University, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

☆ Side-by-side images of a whirlpool galaxy show details NASA's James Webb telescope captured but Hubble missed
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Ellie Zolfagharifard | Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The James Webb telescope captured an image of M51, a galaxy 27 million light-years away. An image of M51 – also known as NGC 5194 or the Whirlpool Galaxy – taken by the James Webb Telescope. NASA/ESA/JWSTAstronomers hope the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will shed new light on how stars form in galaxies other than Milky Way. Before Webb came along, the Hubble telescope provided a glimpse of star formation in galaxies such as M51. Dark red regions show the cosmic dust that permeates the M51 galaxy in this zoomed in image from the James Webb telescope.

Persons: James Webb, Webb, JWST, Hubble Organizations: Service, Hubble, NASA, Whirlpool, Webb's, James, James Webb Telescope, ESA, James Webb Space, JWST, European Space Agency Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ NASA's James Webb telescope captured the spectacular death throes of a star 2,600 light year away
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The James Webb Space Telescope continues to impress with stunning images of the universe. You can see the image in more detail below:The Ring Nebula is a favorite among amateur astronomers. This latest Ring Nebula picture isn't just "aesthetically pleasing," said co-lead scientist Nick Cox of space observation firm ACRI-ST, France. As part of the space telescope's first series of images, scientists released stunning new photos of the Southern Ring Nebula, in July 2022. The two stars can be seen on the MIRI cam picture of the Southern Ring Nebula.

Persons: James Webb Space, NASA's James Webb, Jan Cami, James Webb, Nick Cox, Mike Barlow, JWST Organizations: Service, NASA's James Webb Space, University of Western, Imaging, University College London, NASA, ESA, CSA Locations: Wall, Silicon, University of Western Ontario, Canada, France

☆ NASA's James Webb telescope spotted two stars crashing into each other so violently it could have created gold in space
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The James Webb Space Telescope picked up the blast from two neutron stars colliding. The blast, called a kilonova, created the perfect conditions to make space gold and platinum. The death of two neutron starsAn artist's impressino of a kilonova NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI LabA kilonova happens when two neutron stars — collapsed supermassive stars — gravitate around one another and eventually crash. This particular blast, called GRB 230307A, was first detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on March 7, 2023, per Space.com. These only arise in very limited circumstances, like when two neutron stars collide.

Persons: James Webb, JWST, Fermi, Gold, Uli Deck, Andrew Levan Organizations: James Webb Space Telescope, Service, James Webb Space, Space Flight, Getty, Radboud University Locations: Wall, Silicon, Netherlands

☆ NASA's James Webb telescope discovers the earliest strand of a mysterious 'cosmic web' that links galaxies
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

JWST spotted ten galaxies connected by an invisible cosmic filament. This is the earliest filament ever seen of the so-called "cosmic web," a mysterious network that connects the galaxies in our universe. Galaxies are connected by a cosmic webAn artist's impression of the cosmic web, showing how there are invisible areas of high density of dark and regular matter connecting the galaxies in the universe. Peering back into the early stages of the universe can give us a sense of how galaxies appeared within this mysterious network. The ASPIRE team hopes the picture will shed more light on the cosmic web, but it is also very interested in how early quasars were formed in the universe's infancy.

Persons: JWST, James Webb, Niall Jeffrey, Feige Wang, Joseph DePasquale, Joseph Hennawi Organizations: Service, University of Arizona, ESA, University College London, Guardian, NASA, CSA, University of California Locations: Wall, Silicon, Santa Barbara

☆ Side-by-side images of Uranus show how NASA's James Webb telescope outclasses Hubble, spotting vivid rings that used to go unseen
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

NASA has turned its powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on Uranus. Side-by-side images show once again how much more powerful JWST is than NASA's other space observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, when it comes to infrared imaging. An annotated image points to Uranus's polar cap. Image of Uranus' rings, backlit by the sun. It's not just Uranus's rings that are getting attentionJWST's image also provides a good look at Uranus's mysterious polar cap.

Persons: James Webb, —, Webb, JWST, Hubble, Showalter, It's Organizations: NASA, James Webb Space, Service, Hubble, Keck, ESA, CSA, SETI

☆ New James Webb telescope photo of a galaxy cluster 6 billion light years away shows a trippy phenomenon where gravity warps spacetime
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

New cosmic photos of galactic "arcs and streaks" in space were released on Tuesday by NASA's James Webb Telescope. The galaxies are bending space and time in a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. The SDSS J1226+2149 galaxy cluster shown in this newest photo is around 6.3 billion light years away, in the constellation Coma Berenices, according to the ESA. The James Webb Space Telescope's first deep field infrared image, released July 11, 2022. The light from the MACS0647-JD system is bent and magnified by the massive gravity of galaxy cluster MACS0647.

☆ Europe's space agency is turning to Elon Musk's SpaceX after anti-Russian sanctions left it scrambling for rockets
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets will be used in two launches by the European Space Agency. The agency's boss has previously warned that the rest of the world's space tech is falling behind SpaceX. "In response to EU sanctions against our enterprises, Roscosmos is suspending cooperation with European partners in organizing space launches," it announced at the time. The ESA's choice of SpaceX rockets comes soon after a payment dispute over Musk's Starlink service in Ukraine, which has provided key internet access during the war while normal infrastructure has been offline. SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider on the ESA's use of Falcon 9 rockets.

☆ Check out 6 stunning images taken by James Webb Space Telescope and what they reveal
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Olivia Nemec | Havovi Cooper | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

NASA's James Webb telescope captured an image of a 13.5-billion-year-old galaxy — the oldest ever seen by humans. Other recent images reveal regions where stars and planets form. We looked at six recent Webb images to see how researchers are using them to understand our galaxy. Loading Something is loading. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyWe decoded six of the most recent images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to see how scientists are using them to understand our origins.

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