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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified the earliest supernova on record, according to a statement released ...

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Astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, and the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at the University of Montreal ...

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