Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have found previously invisible structures and activity in Jupiter’s atmosphere above the Great Red Spot. These strange features appear to be caused by powerful atmospheric gravitational waves. The Great Red Spot is the largest storm in the solar system, twice the size of Earth, and has been … Read more
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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered star clusters in the ‘Cosmic Gems’ arc that existed just 460 million years after the Big Bang. This marks the first discovery of star clusters in a young galaxy, as it was when the 13.8 billion-year-old universe was less than 500 million years old. The … Read more
Astronomers get their money’s worth. Scientists have used the powerful $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope to peer into the deepest cosmos and capture images of star clusters in an extremely old galaxy for the first time. In the images below you see these star clusters, which are gravitationally bound groups of stars, as they … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered what could be the earliest star clusters in the universe. JWST discovered the five proto-globular clusters – swarms of millions of stars held together by gravity – within the Cosmic Gems arc, a galaxy that formed just 460 million years after the Sun’s birth. Big bang. The … Read more
In this image of the Serpens Nebula taken with the near-infrared camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found a group of aligned protostellar outflows within one small region (the upper left corner). In the Webb image, these jets are indicated by bright clumpy streaks that appear red, which are shock waves from … Read more
For the first time, a phenomenon that astronomers long hoped could be directly imaged has been captured by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. In this stunning image of the Serpent Nebula, the discovery lies in the northern region (visible above left) of this young, nearby star-forming region. Astronomers have discovered … Read more
A new photo of the Crab Nebula captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists parse the composition and history of the ancient supernova remnant. The Crab Nebula, located in the constellation Taurus, is the result of a supernova explosion that was observed on Earth in 1054 CE and was bright enough to … Read more
Spiral galaxy, NGC 4303, seen from above. Pink, orange and red galactic long-range images. Elements … [+] of this image provided by NASA (combination of images observed by the Webb and Hubble telescopes) Getty Like most good science, large telescopes often create more riddles than they solve. That’s certainly been the case with NASA’s Webb … Read more
A team of scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to gain new insights into the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. This research, using the telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) and Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), has provided data that helps illuminate the complex history of the Crab Nebula. … Read more