The ring, 12 billion light years away, in this image from the Webb Telescope, proves Einstein was right again

The Webb Space Telescope, a $10 billion telescope that is currently 1.6 million kilometers from Earth, has been tapping away since it finished commissioning. From the initial infrared test images, to the Weber Deep field and colored nebulae, to the vastly different colors of Jupiter, the quality of the images returned by Weber was far …

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Europa, six billion kilometers away, has an ocean 100 kilometers thick and is likely to support life

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for signs of alien civilizations, but have found none. The universe is 93 billion light years old, containing trillions of stars and countless planets. The solar system and the Earth are small and common in the universe, but only the Earth gave birth to …

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