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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

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The new capability lets scientists simulate and visually inspect automated experiments before robots run them.

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