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In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

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Probing these wacky celestial bodies can help us understand how conditions beyond our solar system may yield planets vastly different from our own, said study author Thomas Baycroft with the ...