The latest James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image delivers a "glittering glimpse of starbirth," the European Space Agency explains. [Read More]
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Among the most incredible spectacles in deep space are Herbig-Haro (HH) objects: bright patches of the interstellar medium associated with newborn stars, also known as protostars. petapixel.com »
2023-11-30 19:40
Among the James Webb Space Telescope's many scientific objectives are providing astronomers and physicists unprecedented looks at areas where stars are being born. These stellar nurseries are not only of great scientific importance, but they are also visually spectacular. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-10-12 22:32
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is one of the most iconic space photos of all time, showing nearly 10,000 galaxies of diverse ages, sizes, shapes, and colors in a single frame.
The James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) newest images offer a dazzling preview of the Sun's eventual fate.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Chandra X-ray Observatory combined their efforts to look at the Bullet Cluster in a new way, enabling scientists to precisely map the cluster's dark matter. [Read More]
The James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) latest target is Messier 82 (M82), also known as the Cigar Galaxy. The nearby galaxy is five times more luminous than the Milky Way.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured what scientists believe is its first photograph of an exoplanet. If the findings are confirmed, it would mark the first time Webb discovered a planet through a direct image and the lightest planet ever seen using this imaging technique outside the solar system. [Read More]
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first photographed the Sombrero galaxy late last year. Months later, the $10 billion space telescope has set its sights back on the galaxy, this time at different wavelengths of light, completing a mind-bending photo of Sombrero's galactic disk. [Read More]