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Cosmic cocktail: Cheers! NASA’s Webb telescope finds ethanol, other icy ingredients in space

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What do margaritas, vinegar, and ant stings have in common? According to the latest findings from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, these common Earthly substances share chemical roots with the cosmos. Surrounding two nascent protostars, IRAS 2A and IRAS 23385, the telescope has identified icy compounds including ethanol and likely acetic acid. These findings are … Read more

Oldest ‘dead’ galaxy spotted by Nasa’s James Webb telescope

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NEW DELHI: The James Webb Space telescope detected a “dead” galaxy that ceased star formation when the universe was only 5% of its current age. The star formation ended approximately 13.1 billion years ago in the galaxy observed, just 700 million years after the Big Bang.This discovery by Webb telescope, operational since 2022, marks the … Read more