NASA unveils new space telescope to give 'atlas of universe'
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Its first five years of observation will produce images covering 50 times more of the universe than Hubble did in 30 years.
Galaxies, including the one we call home, are within halos of dark matter. But what exactly dark matter is remains something of a mystery. A research team from Washington University is part of a NASA-led mission taking a step towards answering that question.
Fifteen years after Western astronomers first discovered "buckyballs" in space (soccer ball-shaped molecules that resemble a hollow sphere), they're back with stunning images and rich data generated using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)—the most powerful space telescope ever built.
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