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3 years of James Webb Space Telescope data on alien worlds now available online
"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary- it is now hard to imagine what life was like without it!" ...
Astronomers detect ferocious jet-stream winds on alien planet
In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...
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NASA's Exoplanet-Scanning Pandora Spacecraft Begins to Take Shape
NASA hopes to launch Pandora this coming fall, and the completion of the spacecraft bus is a big step toward making that a ...
Water and carbon dioxide detected in the atmosphere of a hot super-Neptune exoplanet
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have characterized the atmosphere of a hot super-Neptune exoplanet designated WASP-166 b. As a result, they found that the atmosphere of this ...
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From light sensing to adaptive learning: Reconfigurable memcapacitive devices in neuromorphic computing
Researchers at KAUST, Saudi Arabia, have made significant strides in neuromorphic computing by developing a reconfigurable ...
'Infrared secrets unlocked': NASA's Pandora mission takes James Webb’s work to the next level
NASA's Pandora mission, equipped with advanced infrared tech, will analyze 20+ exoplanets' atmospheres for water and clouds, ...
Could we detect advanced civilizations by their industrial pollution? Probably not
The hunt for aliens goes hand in hand with the hunt for habitable planets. Astronomers are on the hunt for exoplanets with ...
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What Is an Exoplanet? A Brief Explainer
Gravitational pull from an orbiting planet changes the radial velocity of the star's rotation, which telescopes like Webb can detect. Exoplanets also reflect light that's Doppler shifted according ...