Webb captured the object in infrared — light wavelengths that are invisible to human eyes but can pierce through thick dust.

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New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

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(THE CONVERSATION) In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will prepare to survey billions of galaxies, and multiple ...