A Schmidt Ocean Institute team sent a robot into the midwater off Brazil and confirmed more than 30 new species in two weeks, including a gossamer worm and nine new jellyfish, using laser imaging to study fragile deep-sea life without destroying it.
Omega Centauri should hold about 10,000 stellar-mass black holes. For decades nobody could find one. Hubble and Webb just caught the first, oMEGACat BH-2, by watching a star waltz with an invisible 4.46-solar-mass partner for 20 years.
NASA’s James Webb telescope found a hidden giant planet in the Beta Pictoris system, not by seeing it, but by detecting the carbon-monoxide barcode of its atmosphere. It had been sitting in the data since 2014.