The James Webb Space Telescope’s infrared view has transformed our view of a large barred spiral galaxy, revealing its skeleton of dust illuminated by the glow of young stars. Visible-light images of NGC 1559, such as those taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, show a glowing vortex of light with bright, young star clusters spread … Read more
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have ended a nearly decade-long game of hide-and-seek in the sky after discovering a neutron star in the wreckage of a stellar explosion. Supernova 1987A represents the remains of an exploded star that once had a mass about 8 to 10 times that of the Sun. It … Read more
It’s been about 30 years since NASA astronauts… Hubble Space Telescope on an extremely daring mission. At the time, it was perhaps the most daring mission scientists had conceived. In short, Hubble was launched in 1990 with defective optics that produced blurry images. Fortunately, however, there is the space telescope that orbits the Earth Soil, … Read more