Hubble Detects Mysterious Ghostly Glow Surrounding Our Solar System
Exhaust from Infalling Comets Makes Space a Dusty Place Imagine walking into a room at night, turning off all the lights, and closing the shades….
Exhaust from Infalling Comets Makes Space a Dusty Place Imagine walking into a room at night, turning off all the lights, and closing the shades….
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…
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…
Over 299,000,000 meters a second — an ultra-fast jet blasting from a star crash. Neutron stars are the surviving “trash-compacted” cores of massive stars that…
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…
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…
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…
Blast from the Past Caught in Episodes Due to Gravitational Lensing Light from a star that exploded over 11 billion years ago was captured by…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to help researchers detect more kilonovae, helping us learn significantly more about these “all-star” smashups. How do you pinpoint…
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…
Webb Space Telescope Uncovers Dense Cosmic Knot in the Early Universe NASA’s Webb Space Telescope continues its search into the earliest times of our universe,…
Unexpected Aftermath of First-of-Its-Kind Test Intrigues Astronomers NASA carried out the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a first-of-its-kind experiment, on September 26, 2022. The pioneering…
Near-Infrared Light Uncovers Vast Populations of Forming Stars, Many Still Encased in Dust NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera captured this glittering view of…
“We got more than we bargained for by combining data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope!” New data from Webb…
Researchers confirm the existence of the elusive Magellanic Corona, a protective halo of hot, ionized gas previously known only in theory. For billions of years,…
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…
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…
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…