A team of astronomers has used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover the most distant and oldest black hole ever as it feasts on its host galaxy. The discovery could be a huge step forward in understanding how supermassive black holes reached masses millions of billions of times greater than the Sun in … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has seen Beta Pictoris like never before, capturing a previously unseen structure that is giving the young planetary system a dusty cat’s tail. Located 63 light-years away from us, Beta Pictoris is a star about twice the size of the Sun and eight times as bright, surrounded by a … Read more
When it comes to detecting the presence of liquid water on planets outside the solar system, and thus the conditions necessary for life, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may want to look for what’s missing rather than what is is. This is what that means. A team of researchers, including scientists from the Massachusetts … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected methane and water vapor in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-like world about 163 light-years away. Astronomers made this discovery by using this powerful infrared space telescope to observe the planet outside the solar system.exoplanetWASP-80 b passes over the face of its red dwarf star, which it orbits … Read more