The Green Monster of Space: Unveiling a Supernova Remnant’s Hidden Secrets With Webb
Glowing dust and elements display complex structures that are challenging for scientists to explain. The explosion of a star is a dramatic event, but the…
Glowing dust and elements display complex structures that are challenging for scientists to explain. The explosion of a star is a dramatic event, but the…
Webb’s Infrared Image Highlights the Planet’s Dramatic Rings and Dynamic Atmosphere The planet Uranus is an oddball in our solar system, tilted on its side…
Gas giants orbiting our sun show a clear pattern; the more massive the planet, the lower the percentage of “heavy” elements (anything other than hydrogen…
The amount of infrared light coming from TRAPPIST-1 b suggests that the planet is devoid of any significant atmosphere. Acting as a giant touch-free thermometer,…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team was selected to receive the 2023 Michael Collins Trophy for Lifetime and Current Achievements. This annual award from the…
The examination of exoplanets is a central aspect of the James Webb Space Telescope’s scientific objectives. NASA invited Christopher Stark, the Deputy Observatory Project Scientist…
Weather report: Expect scattered, patchy clouds made up of silicates on planet VHS 1256 b. Ever had hot sand whip across your face? That’s a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 a new study, an international team of astrophysicists has discovered several mysterious objects hiding in images from the James Webb Space Telescope: six potential…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…