The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.

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The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) researchers used data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey.

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Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. Taken from the Spitzer Space Telescope, the display is a composite of 800,000 frames, showing ...

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The spiral arms of nearby galaxy Messier 81 is captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This galaxy is easily visible ...

These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.

Planet-forming disks are rapidly disintegrated when blasted with high-energy radiation from massive young stars.