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Two students have engineered a fix to improve the imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope interferometer. They did this ...

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On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...

The gravitational lensing that causes this rare phenomenon cannot be explained solely by looking at observable ...