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Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

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Pune: Two astronomers from Pune-based National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed stunning, unprecedented details of the Red Spider Nebula using its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). This new image, for the first time, fully ...

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