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]
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Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made a monumental discovery, finding evidence for a neutron star at the heart of a young supernova remnant. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-02-23 19:58
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 (JWST) team has translated some of the telescope's first photos into music. Called sonification, the goal is to make the JWST's image and data understandable through sound to help listeners create their own mental images. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-09-01 20:07
Astronomer Jasmine Singh has shared a fascinating comparison of the earliest photograph ever taken of Jupiter and the most recent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image of the planet. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-08-30 20:14
NASA has finally published the first colorized, full-resolution photos captured by the James Webb Space Telescope and the detail and resolution of the images is incredible, especially when compared to the images of these same cosmic objects captured by Hubble. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-07-12 19:35
NASA as revealed the cosmic objects that will be shown when it releases the first full-color photos captured by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-07-08 18:49
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
NASA has announced that it will release the first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12. There's even a countdown on the dedicated Webb Space Telescope website. dpreview.com »
2022-06-06 18:09
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 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
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]
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)'s new "Picture of the Month" shows the mega-monster galaxy cluster Abell S1063. This impressive collection of galaxies is about 4.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved another record. Scientists using the groundbreaking telescope have detected light from an ancient galaxy, MoM-z14, just 280 million years following the Big Bang.
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured brilliant new details of the auroras on Jupiter, the Solar System's largest planet. The auroras observed on Jupiter are a staggering 100 times brighter than the auroral displays observed on Earth. [Read More]
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first public planetarium, which was founded in Munich, Germany, NASA and its partners created a 3D version of the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) iconic "Cosmic Cliffs" image. [Read More]
An international team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) located a gargantuan spiral galaxy located about 11.7 billion light-years away. This colossal spiral galaxy, aptly nicknamed "Big Wheel," is about five times more massive than the Milky Way galaxy. [Read More]