NASA's James Webb Space Telescope used its sophisticated aperture mechanism to capture unprecedented images of the heart of the Circinus Galaxy, providing astronomers with data unlike anything previously obtained and completely upending the understanding of super-bright infrared regions surrounding supermassive black holes. [Read More]
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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
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
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) blasted off into space on December 25, 2021. Since then readers have been treated to a series of stunning images of the cosmos. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-12-28 21:01
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
NOVA, a PBS award-winning science series, has premiered a new special that chronicles the James Webb Space Telescope's journey into space through the capture of its first incredible photos. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-07-14 20:22
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
A couple of weeks ago, NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope's optics are fully aligned and focused, meaning that the space telescope is ready for instrument commissioning. Yesterday, NASA revealed a new image from its coldest instrument, the Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI. dpreview.com »
2022-05-11 17:10
NASA's huge new James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful telescope ever launched into space, but the agency is already looking toward the future. It is currently exploring the possibility of creating liquid lenses to make a gigantic telescope perhaps 100 times the size of the Webb. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-04-06 23:05
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
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
Astronomers have captured the clearest image ever of the vast, powerful jet of matter erupting from the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87). [Read More]
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) latest images reveal a colorful array of stars in the relatively nearby Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud, the most active and massive star-forming region in the Milky Way galaxy. [Read More]
The latest James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image delivers a "glittering glimpse of starbirth," the European Space Agency explains. [Read More]
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]