For years, small red points of light in James Webb images puzzled scientists. New research…
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most powerful space observatory ever built, designed to peer deeper into the universe than ever before. Launched in December 2021, JWST is a collaboration between NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), and CSA (Canadian Space Agency). It orbits the Sun about a million miles from Earth and uses a massive gold-coated mirror and advanced infrared instruments to study the earliest galaxies, the birth of stars and planets, and the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. By capturing light that has traveled billions of years, JWST is transforming our understanding of the cosmos—from the origins of the universe to the potential for life beyond Earth.
A nearby galaxy is launching an enormous stream of super-heated gas, driven by a precessing…
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early…
A wobbling jet from a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy is blasting gas…
JWST observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth exoplanet TOI-561 b provide the strongest evidence to date…
An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, successfully probed the early universe.…
Astronomers have discovered a carbon-rich exoplanet with a bizarre atmosphere and shape, orbiting a neutron…
An ultra-hot rocky exoplanet may be wrapped in a dense atmosphere, defying expectations about what…
A distant spiral galaxy called Alaknanda has been found at a time when such orderly…
Using the JWST, an international team featuring UNIGE scientists has detected enormous clouds of helium…
A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may…
Phosphine has finally been spotted in the atmosphere of the brown dwarf Wolf 1130C, surprising…
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to build the first 3D map of…
A team led by an astronomer from the University of Maryland has, for the first…
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how…
Sydney scientists fixed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope without ever leaving Earth. Using AI-powered software…
JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form.…
Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours…