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  1. A night photo of the Artemis I rocket launching
    Astronomy

     The James Webb Space Telescope wasn’t the only big space news in 2022

    DART crashed into an asteroid, Artemis went to the moon and we got a pic of our galaxy’s monstrous black hole. Space was a busy place this year.
    By Lisa Grossman
  2. An illustration of exoplanet GJ 1214b and its star.
    Astronomy

     The James Webb telescope is getting glimpses of small, far-off planets

    Hints of one exoplanet atmosphere’s chemical makeup and the discovery of a planet orbiting another star are two of the telescope’s early successes.
    By Lisa Grossman
  3. illustration of a planet spiraling into its star
    Astronomy

     The first planet found by the Kepler space telescope is doomed

    The exoplanet dubbed Kepler 1658b is spiraling toward its host star and will meet a fiery death in less than 3 million years.
    By Lisa Grossman
  4. Regions of sky, shown as rectangles, observed by JWST, against a black backdrop
    Astronomy

    How the James Webb telescope’s glances back in time are reshaping cosmology

    The observatory has found dozens of galaxies from less than 550 million years after the Big Bang, suggesting galaxies formed faster than once thought.
    By Lisa Grossman
  5. An illustration of a pair of compact stars merging (bright dots in the center) and emitting jets of radiation (green and purple beams)
    Astronomy

     A bizarre gamma-ray burst breaks the rules for these cosmic eruptions

    The 50-second gamma-ray burst is the first that unambiguously breaks the rule that long bursts usually come from supernovas.
    By Lisa Grossman
  6. Carina nebula image taken by JWST's NIRCam camera
    Astronomy

     In 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope brought us new views of the cosmos

    Science News looks back at some of the most stunning images from the James Webb telescope’s first year in space.

    By Lisa Grossman
  7. a snapshot of a computer simulation of the early universe, showing radiation as blue clouds emanating from dense filaments of stars and galaxies (shown as white specks)
    Astronomy

     A new supercomputer simulation animates the evolution of the universe

    The detailed simulation shows the cosmos changing from a dark, featureless gas to a web of stars and galaxies radiating light.
    By James R. Riordon
  8. An illustration of an active black hole with a jet of charged particles shooting out into space, a blazar
    Astronomy

     Here’s why some supermassive black holes blaze so brightly

    NASA’s IPXE X-ray satellite saw a telltale signature of shock waves propagating along a blazar’s high-speed jet, causing it to emit high-energy light.
    By Lisa Grossman
  9. A photo of the Pillars of Creation
    Space

     These are our top space images of all time

    These are the best astronomy pictures ever, from Hubble, the James Webb Space Telescope and more.
    By Science News Staff