Messy Death Spiral: New Webb Space Telescope Images Reveal a Star’s Murder Scene
Reconstructed by a global forensic team of astronomers using stunning James Webb Space Telescope images. The first images of a nebula from the James Webb…
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James Webb Telescope’s Unparalleled View of the Ghostly Light in Galaxy Clusters
Data obtained by the new James Webb Space Telescope was used by a recent study that has produced the most complete analysis to date of…
New Innovative System Evaluates the Habitability of Distant Planets
A computerized system categorizes planet atmospheres and determines which are viable for future settlement by humans. The climate crisis poses a significant challenge to all…
Webb and Keck Telescopes Team for Unprecedented Look at Saturn’s Moon Titan – “Simply Extraordinary!”
On the morning of Saturday, November 5, an international team of planetary scientists woke up with great delight to the first Webb images of Saturn’s…
Never-Before-Seen Molecule: Webb Reveals a “Hot Saturn” Exoplanet Atmosphere
New Webb Space Telescope observations of WASP-39 b reveal a never-before-seen molecule in the atmosphere of a planet — sulfur dioxide — among other details….
New Robot Design May Revolutionize How We Build Things in Space
A New Walking Robot Design Researchers have created a cutting-edge walking robot that might revolutionize large space construction projects. They tested the feasibility of the…
James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Oldest Star Clusters in the Universe
A team of astronomers used the James Webb Telescope (JWST) to identify the most distant globular clusters ever discovered. These dense groups of millions of stars…
As Never Seen Before: NASA’s Webb Reveals an Exoplanet Unlike Any in Our Solar System
Observations of Exoplanet WASP-39b show fingerprints of atoms and molecules, as well as signs of active chemistry and clouds. WASP-39 b is a planet unlike…
Baffling “Spiderweb” Star Discovered – Is It an Alien Megastructure?
A puzzling image captured by the James Webb Telescope explained. A strange image of the distant star WR140 surrounded by concentric geometric ripples captured by…
NASA’s Webb Explores the Final Frontier: Draws Back the Curtains on an Undiscovered Universe
Webb Telescope’s Infrared Vision Explores the Final Frontier An unexpectedly rich “undiscovered country” of early galaxies that has been largely hidden until now has been…
See the Birth of a New Star: Webb Space Telescope Captures Once-Hidden Features of a Protostar
Webb’s NIRCam Instrument Shows the Beginning of Protostar Evolution NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed new details surrounding the dark cloud L1527 and its…
A Better Way To Search for Extraterrestrial Life
An airborne chemical sends a distinctive biological signal. Broccoli, along with many other plants and microorganisms, release gases to aid in the removal of toxins. These…
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope & SLS Moon Rocket Named TIME Inventions of 2022
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket were named 2022 TIME Inventions of the Year. NASA led the international Webb partnership…
Never-Before-Seen Details of Early Universe from Webb Space Telescope
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was specially designed to detect the faint infrared light from very distant galaxies and give astronomers a glimpse at the…
James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI Instrument Restored to Full Functionality
The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has four observational modes. After measuring increased friction in one of the grating wheels used…
Webb Space Telescope’s Eerie New View of “Pillars of Creation” Looks Supernatural
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just keeps streaming the hits back to Earth. This time, data from the MIRI mid-infrared instrument onboard JWST shows…
Haunting Portrait: NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Reveals Chilling Pillars of Creation
Webb Highlights the Velvet-Like Lining of Dust Throughout This Star-Forming Region, Including Shells Around Actively Forming Stars As seen here, the Pillars of Creation appear…
Galactic Collision: Webb Space Telescope Explores Frenzied Star Formation in Merging Galaxies
This image from the James Webb Space Telescope showcases an entwined pair of interacting galaxies known as IC 1623. It lies approximately 270 million light-years…
