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Webb Maps an Exoplanet's Atmosphere as Egg-Shaped, With a Puffed-Up Evening Side Hotter Than Its Morning Edge

Astronomers used a new method on the hot Jupiter WASP-17b to read the shape of its air around the rim, finding a bigger, hotter evening limb that matches what weather models predicted.

Oct 18, 2026

Technology

The Telescope Launching This Month Sees a Patch of Sky a Hundred Times Wider Than Hubble's

Nancy Grace Roman is not a bigger Webb. It is a survey instrument, built to photograph enormous areas of sky at Hubble-class sharpness, and its value is in the sheer volume of what it will record.

Aug 21, 2026