Webb telescope detects water on distant planet

Washington: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected signs of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere of a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star over a thousand light years away, the US space agency said on Wednesday. PTI

Israel museum finds Modigliani sketches

Haifa: Curators at an Israeli museum have discovered three previously unknown sketches by celebrated 20th-century artist Amedeo Modigliani hiding beneath the surface of one of his paintings. The unfinished works by Modigliani, an Italian-born artist, came to light after the canvas of “Nude with a Hat” at the University of Haifa’s Hecht Museum was X-rayed. ap