Impending Stellar “Death” Revealed – NASA’s Webb Telescope Captures Prelude to Supernova
Wolf-Rayet 124: A Star in Transition Wolf-Rayet stars are a rare prelude to the famous final act of massive stars: the supernova. In one of…
James Webb Space Telescope News
Read the latest news on the James Webb Space Telescope, the large, space-based observatory that will complement and extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope. With its 6.5-meter primary mirror, Webb offers longer wavelength coverage and vastly improved sensitivity, allowing it to look further back in time to view the first galaxies that formed in the early universe and to peer inside dust clouds where stars and planets are forming today.
Webb Spots Globular Cluster Sparkling With Separate Stars in the Milky Way Halo
On June 20, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope spent just over one hour staring at Messier 92 (M92), a globular cluster 27,000 light-years away…
Breathtaking Early Stages of Star Formation Captured With James Webb Space Telescope
Webb space telescope’s mid-infrared capabilities allowed scientists to see past gas and dust clouds to observe previously obscured details in faraway galaxies. A team of…
Webb Space Telescope: Beneath the Night Sky in a Galaxy (Not Too) Far Away
NASA spoke with Kristen McQuinn of Rutgers University, one of the lead scientists on Webb Early Release Science (ERS) program 1334, focused on resolved stellar…
Researchers Measure Size-Luminosity Relation of Galaxies Less Than a Billion Years After Big Bang
An international team of researchers, including those from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), have published a new…
In Massive Galactic Discovery, Webb Spots Super Old Galaxies That Shouldn’t Exist – “It’s Bananas!”
In a new study, an international team of astrophysicists has discovered several mysterious objects hiding in images from the James Webb Space Telescope: six potential…
“Massive” Webb Space Telescope Discovery Defies Prior Understanding of the Universe
Six massive galaxies discovered in the early universe are upending what scientists previously understood about the origins of galaxies in the universe. “These objects are…
Astronomers Astounded by Intricate Networks of Gas and Dust in Nearby Galaxies Revealed by NASA’s Webb Space Telescope
Young stars’ impact on galaxy evolution explored with PHANGS program The saying goes, ‘From a tiny acorn grows the mighty oak.’ This is accurate not…
Remarkable Similarities – New Analysis Reveals Links Between Galaxies Near and Far
An analysis of distant galaxies captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals that they are extremely young and exhibit remarkable similarities to a rare…
James Webb Space Telescope Explores Star Formation in Distant Galaxies
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images of galaxy clusters, researchers have, for the very first time, been able to examine very compact…
Webb Space Telescope Spies Chariklo’s Strange Ring System
In an observational feat of high precision, scientists used a new technique with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to capture the shadows of starlight cast…
James Webb Space Telescope Detects Asteroid the Size of Rome’s Colosseum
The object belongs to the poorly known sub-kilometer category of asteroids in the main belt. An asteroid roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum — between…
Study Provides Darkest-Ever View of Primordial Interstellar Ices
Researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to examine primordial interstellar ices. An international team consisting of Southwest Research Institute, Leiden University, and NASA utilized…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Wins Prestigious Space Foundation Award
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team has been selected to receive the 2023 John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration, a top award…
Webb Space Telescope Glitch Likely Caused by Galactic Cosmic Ray – NIRISS Returns to Full Operations
On January 15, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) experienced a communications delay within the science instrument, causing its…
Astronomers Suggest More Galaxies Were Formed in the Early Universe Than Previously Thought
Exploring the universe’s earliest galaxies with NASA’s new space telescope. A team of astronomers, headed by Haojing Yan at the University of Missouri, have used…
James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRISS Instrument Knocked Offline
On Sunday, January 15, 2023, the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) experienced a communications delay within the instrument, causing…
Webb Peers Into Frozen Heart of Molecular Cloud – Unveils Dark Side of Pre-Stellar Ice Chemistry
Webb has identified frozen forms of a wide range of molecules, including carbon dioxide, ammonia, and methane. The discovery of diverse ices in the darkest…
