Photo: Rosette Nebula. Courtesy of Craig Reynolds Do you love to gaze at the night sky and marvel at the stars? Would you ...

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Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

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In a first, scientists have recreated the formation of the first ever molecules in the universe to learn more about early ...

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