James Webb captures vast structure created by newborn stars
Newborn stars are often active and glow brightly, but on some rare occasions, they can create something truly epic: a vast and bright two-lobed structure called a Herbig-Haro object. These…
James Webb spots ancient dust that could be from the earliest supernovas
Dust might not sound like the most interesting of topics, but to a certain set of astronomers, it’s thrilling. Researchers recently used the James Webb Space Telescope to identify grains…
Zoom into stunning James Webb image to see a galaxy formed 13.4 billion years ago
One of the amazing things about the James Webb Space Telescope is the level of detail it is able to capture of very distant objects — but it can be…
Journey Into the Past: Webb’s Trippy 3D Animation Guides You to an Ancient Galaxy
CEERS flight.Gif: Frank Summers (STScI), Greg Bacon (STScI), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Leah Hustak (STScI), Joseph Olmsted (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Gizmodo In August 2022, scientists published a Webb Space Telescope…
James Webb spots the most distant active supermassive black hole ever discovered
As well as observing specific objects like distant galaxies and planets here in our solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope is also being used to perform wide-scale surveys of…
One galaxy, two views: see a comparison of images from Hubble and Webb
It might not seem obvious why astronomers need multiple different powerful space telescopes. Surely a more powerful telescope is better than a less powerful one? So why are there multiple…
Webb Space Telescope Discovers Farthest Active Supermassive Black Hole Known
Astronomers imaging the cosmos with the Webb Space Telescope have found the most distant active supermassive black hole yet. The black hole was “seen” as it was around 570 million…
Webb Telescope Spots Potential Fuel for Early Universe in Supernovae Debris
Two supernovae 22 million light-years away ejected dust into their region of the universe, Webb Space Telescope observations reveal, indicating that violent stellar deaths could give rise to new star…
The Webb Telescope Finally Snaps Saturn’s Luminous Rings
The Webb Space Telescope has taken an image of the ringed planet Saturn, completing its photo album of our solar system’s gas giants. Webb Telescope Images the Pillars of Creation…
Saturn as you’ve never seen it before, captured by Webb telescope
NASA, ESA, CSA, JWST Saturn team NASA has shared a gorgeous image of Saturn captured recently by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Webb’s first near-infrared observations of the second…