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]
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been used to identify six galaxies that potentially emerged extremely early in the universe’s history and are so massive they should not be possible under the current cosmological theory. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-02-23 21:00
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a protostar that was previously hidden from other space telescopes in a dark cloud known as L1527. The photo reveals what appears as a "fiery hourglass" and gives astronomers insight into a new star's formation. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-11-16 19:36
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) has captured a massive and stunningly detailed photo of the Pillars of Creation, a celestial region that gives birth to new stars. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-10-19 18:42
A fascinating new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captures 17 dust rings that resemble a fingerprint created by a rare type of star. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-10-13 16:43
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a mid-infrared image of the spiral galaxy IC 5332, which shows an entirely different view compared to what Hubble is able to see of the same region. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-09-27 18:06
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a photo of Neptune that displays the clearest view of the planet's rings in more than 30 years. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-09-21 20:57
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a stunning mosaic image of the Tarantula Nebula that stretches 240 light-years across and includes tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars that were not visible with previous telescopes. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-09-06 21:23
One of the first five photos to be taken by the James Webb Space Telescope is being used by malicious actors to spread malware, as identified by securities analytics platform Securonix. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-09-06 19:07
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured its first direct image of a planet outside the Solar System. This exoplanet is a gas giant that has six to 12 times the mass of Jupiter and is relatively young: between 15 and 20 million years old. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-09-02 17:34
The James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) has been used to capture a gorgeous and mesmerizing photo of the heart of galaxy M74, also known as the Phantom Galaxy. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-08-30 17:23
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has aimed its impressive camera system relatively close to home and captured a pair of gorgeous photos of Jupiter's auroras. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-08-22 18:51
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a glimpse of Earendel, the oldest and most distant star ever observed that was first discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope earlier this year. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-08-03 18:12
The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a follow-up to its first images that were revealed last month. The photo is of the Cartwheel Galaxy and is a composite image created from its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-08-02 20:01
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has broken the record for the oldest galaxy ever observed by nearly 100 million years. The galaxy, called GLASS-z13, dates to just 300 million years after the big bang. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-07-20 18:54
The James Webb Space Telescope is capturing photos of the universe in remarkable resolution, but it only has enough onboard storage to keep about a day's worth of photos at a time. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-07-18 19:32
The James Web Space Telescope team is fresh off the exciting reveal of the telescope's first full-color photographs, but those images aren't the only ones the observatory has captured. petapixel.com »
2022-07-14 17:38
NASA has released a new image that was captured by the James Webb Space Telescope's Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS), the tool the observatory finds and locks onto targets, which provides a glimpse of the telescope's incredible imaging prowess. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-07-07 17:30
NASA has announced that the Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI, the second of the James Webb Space Telescope's four primary scientific instruments, has concluded its preparations and is ready to start capturing the universe. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-07-01 18:25
The images released from the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12 will be the deepest view of the universe ever taken, and some scientists say they've been brought to tears by the photographs. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-06-30 20:43
The James Webb Space Telescope will release its first full-color images and spectroscopic data on July 12, and a countdown clock has been added to the telescope's website. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-06-01 21:21
The James Webb Space Telescope's alignment is now complete and is confirmed to be able to capture sharp, perfectly crisp images with all four of its instruments. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-04-29 05:49
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
NASA's Juno spacecraft recently made its 66th flyby, or "perijove," of the gas giant, Jupiter, returning many spectacular raw images to Earth. While NASA processes many photos from the Juno mission, community editors are a significant part of the photography efforts, and the latest community submissions are incredible. [Read More]
NASA's Perseverance rover captured the clearest view of Mars' landscape yet, showing incredible blue rocks on the dusty surface that raise pivotal questions about the Red Planet's complex history. [Read More]
While browsing Reddit yesterday, I came across a gorgeous photo of Earth that had been downloaded from the NOAA's GOES-East orbital satellite. Looking more closely, I realized the NOAA was uploading a new, 470-megapixel photo every 10 minutes. [Read More]
The Mars Curiosity rover landed inside the Gale crater on Mars on August 6th, 2012. In the 12 years since, the rover has seen a lot of amazing things on Mars and taken thousands of photos, many unlike anything ever seen before.
Despite being harsh and inhospitable, Mars has a surprisingly cheery disposition. Scientists have located a "smiley face" on the Martian surface as part of a new study of the Red Planet's surface. [Read More]
The picturesque view from the cupola in the International Space Station (ISS) is iconic -- it has been in photos and videos countless times. However, it had never been the location for a live interview, at least until this week. [Read More]
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is about 210,000 light-years away. The SMC is one of the Milky Way galaxy's nearest neighbors and is one of its "satellite" galaxies.