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Nov 13, 2023

The Ammonia Trail: Unlocking Cosmic Mysteries of Distant Worlds With Webb

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The detection of ammonia isotopologues in a brown dwarf by the James Webb Space Telescope.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) is an orbiting infrared observatory that will complement and extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope. It covers longer wavelengths of light, with greatly improved sensitivity, allowing it to see inside dust clouds where stars and planetary systems are forming today as well as looking further back in time to observe the first galaxies that formed in the early universe.

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