James Webb Telescope Discovers Tiny New Moon Orbiting Uranus

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August 23, 2025

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A team from the Southwest Research Institute has discovered a tiny new moon orbiting Uranus using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The moon, called S/2025 U1, is just 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide, too small for Voyager 2 to detect during its 1986 flyby. This discovery brings Uranus’s total known moons to 29, with S/2025 U1 orbiting 35,000 miles from the planet…

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NASA’s James Webb Telescope May Have Found First Black Hole Star, Known as ‘The Cliff’

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September 25, 2025

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JWST detected “The Cliff,” a candidate black hole star with a black hole core wrapped in a luminous gas shell. This discovery offers insights into black hole formation, stellar evolution, and cosmic dynamics, prompting astronomers to search for similar objects across the universe.

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Tiny Red Dots Spotted By NASA’s James Webb Telescope Could Be Black Hole Stars

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September 25, 2025

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed mysterious “little red dots” that seem too bright and mature for their age. A new study suggests they may be black hole stars—giant hydrogen spheres powered by black holes—helping explain the rapid growth of early supermassive black holes.

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Blue Origin to Land NASA’s VIPER Rover on the Moon’s South Pole in 2027

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September 25, 2025

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NASA chose Blue Origin to deliver the VIPER rover to the Moon’s South Pole by late 2027 under a $190 million CLPS contract. VIPER will explore permanently shadowed craters for water ice, a key resource for Artemis goals and sustainable human exploration on the lunar surface.