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This smartphone-compatible telescope makes blurry zoom a thing of the past—Perfect for concerts, sporting events, nature walks, and more.

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The James Webb telescope has captured some seriously cool direct images of a planet beyond our solar system. This is the telescope's first exoplanet discovery.

This discovery is out of this world. For the first time since its operations began in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a direct image, published by the journal Nature, of a ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured its first direct image of a previously unknown exoplanet — a planet that orbits outside the solar system.

It is set to reveal secrets previously beyond our grasp. Here, we delve into the first images taken by Rubin’s telescope and what they are already showing us.

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The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.