NASA has shared a new image that has been captured by the James Webb Space Telescope and side by side with the same cluster of stars captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope, it's clear how much better Webb's MIRI camera is. [Read More]
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Since NASA shared the first five images from the James Webb Space Telescope last July, astronomers have been busy using the telescope to study the cosmos and uncover new information about the origins of the universe. petapixel.com »
2023-04-12 00:34
NASA has announced that its James Webb Space Telescope has reached another alignment milestone. On March 11, the Webb team completed the critical alignment stage known as 'fine phasing. ' Fine phasing is the fifth of seven major alignment steps. dpreview.com »
2022-03-17 21:46
NASA has announced that the James Webb telescope has completed the fourth and fifth stages of its alignment and scientists say that the performance of its imaging system is at or beyond their most optimistic expectations. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-03-16 19:27
The James Webb Space Telescope has reached another major milestone in its mirror alignment process as the team has successfully worked through the second and third phases of the process and completed Segment Alignment. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-02-28 18:24
After entering its final orbit around the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, otherwise known as L2, about 1. 5 million kilometers (nearly a million miles) from Earth, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently detected its first photons. dpreview.com »
2022-02-08 19:50
Lead image: Artist's rendition of James Webb Space Telescope in space. Credit: Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, NASA Animator NASA's James Webb Space Telescope lifted off on Christmas morning from Arianespace's ELA-3 launch complex at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. dpreview.com »
2022-01-26 20:52
Lead image credit: NASA After more than a month in safe mode, NASA has announced that the Hubble Space Telescope has returned to full science operations. We reported on November 8 that Hubble was in safe mode following its second shutdown of the year. dpreview.com »
2021-12-08 17:52
Astrophysicists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured the longest and most detailed look ever of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. [Read More]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured a photo of two stars actively producing carbon-rich dust, which may one day fuel the formation of new stars and planets. [Read More]
Scientists frequently combine data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST/Webb) and Chandra X-ray Observatory (Chandra) to get a complete picture of cosmic objects and learn more about the Universe's history.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues showing off its remarkable imaging technology. Webb's latest target, the Sombrero galaxy, gives the $10 billion telescope ample opportunity to showcase its mid-infrared and infrared cameras. [Read More]
The James Webb Space Telescope continues to capture spectacular photos of the universe and the latest is an unusually dense cluster of massive stars that contain more than 10,000 times the mass of the Sun, yet are packed into an unbelievably small volume. [Read More]
Astrophysicist Jacqueline McCleary from Northeastern University explains the science behind a new image captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The image reveals a cosmic formation resembling a question mark, stirring excitement among astronomers. [Read More]
As scientists use the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to answer some of the Universe's most pressing questions, they've also uncovered new questions, including literal question mark-shaped cosmic objects. [Read More]