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Scientists Identify ‘Astronomy’s Platypus’ with NASA’s Webb Telescope

After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri says they have identified a samp...
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NASA Webb Finds Early-Universe Analog’s Unexpected Talent for Making Dust

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one of the most chemically primitive galaxies near the Milky Way. The finding...
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The Hidden Fire Crisis Building Across the Western U.S.

By stopping fires for generations, the western U.S. may have made its wildfire problem far worse. Wildfires are not always harmful to forests. In many ecosystems, fire helps remove accumulated debr...
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