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A supermassive black hole is hurtling away from its home galaxy

For the first time, researchers have spotted what appears to be a supermassive black hole flying away from its home galaxy at incredible speeds, trailing bursts of star formation behind it

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JWST has spotted the earliest black hole ever seen in the universe

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Trappist-1 is a red-dwarf star, the most common variety, located some 40 light-years away in Aquarius. In 2015, astronomers discovered that Trappist-1 was host to three earth-sized planets. Then it came under the spotlight again in 2017 when NASA scientists found an additional four planets, taking the total up to seven. This is the most terrestrial planets that have ever been found to orbit a single star, including our own Solar System. Trappist-1 is only fractionally larger than Jupiter in diameter. This image shows the star and six of the planets as they would appear from the vantage point of the fifth outermost planet, Trappist-1f. All of the planets and the Sun are to scale. One of the worlds is seen transiting in front of the star.

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JWST finds the planet TRAPPIST-1b may not have an atmosphere

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JWST took a stunning picture of a star that’s about to go supernova

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JWST took a stunning picture of a star that’s about to go supernova

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Satellite trails crossing an image of galaxy ARP248, captured by Hubble

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Hubble Space Telescope images are being spoiled by satellite trails

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JWST image of crowded field of galaxies

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Huge young galaxies seen by JWST may upend our models of the universe

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This image by NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope?s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) features the central region of the Chamaeleon I dark molecular cloud, which resides 630 light years away. The cold, wispy cloud material (blue, center) is illuminated in the infrared by the glow of the young, outflowing protostar Ced 110 IRS 4 (orange, upper left). The light from numerous background stars, seen as orange dots behind the cloud, can be used to detect ices in the cloud, which absorb the starlight passing through them.

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JWST has seen building blocks of life in a dark, cold cloud in space

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The Southern Ring Nebula. The left image highlights the very hot gas and the right image the stars

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Amazing JWST images show a nebula shaped by a multi-star system

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Majestic photographs of the world's major telescopes

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Majestic photographs of the world's major telescopes

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JWST has taken astonishing images of debris orbiting a nearby star

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has observed a glowing disc of debris left over from planet formation around a nearby star called AU Microscopii

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JWST captured the most thrilling and inspiring space images of 2022

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JWST has broken the record for most distant galaxy ever confirmed

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JWST has taken pictures of clouds on Saturn’s moon Titan

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