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
Exoplanet WASP 107b is a gas giant almost as large as Jupiter, but much less massive. Based on this discrepancy, astronomers were unsure how a planet like WASP 107b could exist. But now two independent teams of researchers have harnessed the power of JWST to solve the mystery. In the middle of our cosmic neighborhood, … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered not one but two of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever discovered, continuing to break the records it previously set. The most distant galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0, is seen as it was about 300 million years after the Big Bang and existed at least 100 million years earlier … Read more
The Orion Nebula may be a well-known and well-studied celestial object, but new images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) show this star-forming cloud of gas and dust in an incredibly new and vibrant light. The Orion Nebula, also known as “Messier 42” (M42), is located about 1,500 light-years from Earth toward the constellation … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has zoomed in on the heart of the Cigar Galaxy, a region of space ablaze with an explosive bout of star birth. This starburst galaxy, also known as Messier 82 (M82), has a compact but turbulent environment at its core that could give scientists a clearer picture of how … Read more
What was little more than a bright spot for the Hubble Space Telescope has been revealed as one of the oldest galaxies ever discovered – and the find is thanks to none other than Hubble’s younger sibling: the James Webb Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope’s international ‘Glass’ Collaboration has made detailed observations of … Read more
Newly released James Webb Space Telescope images of 19 distant galaxies shine a whole new, dynamic and vibrant light on these beautiful realms. The trove of cosmic portraits captured by this $10 billion telescope reveal highly detailed and quite breathtaking facial views of the spirals as seen from the instrument’s vantage point in space. These … Read more