Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes Capture Detailed Views of DART Asteroid Impact
First Time Webb and Hubble Make Simultaneous Observations of the Same Target Two of NASA’s great observatories had a front-row seat to a groundbreaking NASA…
First Time Webb and Hubble Make Simultaneous Observations of the Same Target Two of NASA’s great observatories had a front-row seat to a groundbreaking NASA…
James Webb Space Telescope’s first images of the Orion Nebula, the richest and closest star nursery to our solar system, have just been revealed by…
Webb Space Telescope Infrared Observations Tease Out Never Seen Atmospheric and Ring Details At an average distance of 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers) from…
Mid-Infrared Instrument Operations Update The James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) has four observing modes. During setup for a science observation on August 24, a mechanism that…
On September 5, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured its first images and spectra of Mars. The powerful telescope provides a unique perspective with its…
Refining current opacity models will be key to extracting details of exoplanet properties — and signs of life — in data from the powerful new…
New Webb pictures reveal spectacular view of Orion Nebula James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has again demonstrated its incredible power by capturing the most detailed…
The U.S. Postal Service has issued a stamp celebrating NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope. As the world’s premier space science observatory, Webb is the…
A New Story of Star Formation Unfolds NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope presents a new perspective on the Tarantula Nebula, or 30 Doradus, a region…
For the first time ever, astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of a planet outside our solar system. The…
New Tracks Combine Science and Art, Improving Experiences for Blind and Low-Vision Communities A team of experts, including scientists and musicians, has created a new…
Incredible new images of the spectacular Phantom Galaxy, M74, showcase the power of space observatories working together in multiple wavelengths. In this case, data from…
NASA’s Webb ushers in a new era of exoplanet science with the first unequivocal detection of carbon dioxide in a planetary atmosphere outside our solar…
Jupiter has a lot going on: giant storms, powerful winds, auroras, and extreme temperature and pressure conditions. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured…
The close proximity of Stephan’s Quintet gives astronomers a ringside seat to galactic mergers and interactions. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen details of…
On December 25th, 2021, after many years of anticipation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) finally launched to space. In the sixth-month period that followed,…
Now that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s first images and data have been released, you might be wondering: What comes next? There is a packed…
After the recent release of the first images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, data from the telescope’s commissioning period is now being released on…