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James Webb Telescope

NASA found a question mark in space, so what is it?

On July 26 NASA’s James Webb Telescope spotted an unusually shaped object sitting in the Milky Way that has raised a few … questions.

  • By Rosie Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff

NASA’s James Webb Telescope detects water vapour in distant ‘planet-forming’ area

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapour in a “planet-forming” area of a distant star, the agency announced Monday, in a major discovery that marks the first time astronomers have found extraterrestrial water in an area with planets on the cusp of being formed, shedding light on how life could have begun on Earth.

  • By Brian Bushard
  • Forbes Staff
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