James Webb Space Telescope

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A space telescope under construction in a NASA lab.

NASA to launch new space telescope with “mind-boggling” 288MP camera

By Alan Palazon published

News The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in May 2027 with a 288MP camera, will “unveil the cosmos to the edge of the observable universe”

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An orange glow of a potential new planet surrounding the blue dust rings of an star

This photograph captures a previously undiscovered planet – and scientists are hopeful it's the first of many the James Webb Telescope could uncover

By Hillary K. Grigonis published

NEWS The James Webb Telescope has photographed what appears to be an undiscovered planet, previously obscured by dust and starlight

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The hidden intricacies of Messier 106 spiral galaxy

Mesmerizing James Webb Space Telescope photo lets you gaze into a hungry black hole

By Chris George published

News European Space Agency releases new photograph of the Messier 106 spiral galaxy

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared view of interacting galaxies Arp 142 seems to sing in primary colors. The Egg shows up as a tiny, teal-colored oval, because it is made up of old stars and has lost or used up most of its gas and dust. At right, the Penguin’s star-forming regions are represented in pink and purple, and contain smoke-like material known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Photograph of the Penguin Galaxy chasing the Egg commemorates second space anniversary of the James Webb Space Telescope

By Leonie Helm published

News The stunning image is of the two galaxies on their fixed collision path, that will one day become a single entity

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A small image of a galaxy distorted by gravitational lensing into a dim ring. At the top of the ring are three very bright spots with diffraction spikes coming off them, right next to each other: these are copies of a single quasar in the lensed galaxy, duplicated by the gravitational lens. In the centre of the ring, the elliptical galaxy doing the lensing appears as a small blue dot. The background is black and empty

James Webb Space Telescope photographs jeweled ring in the cosmos in one of its best discoveries to date

By Leonie Helm last updated

News Did you know gravity can create lenses, and Einstein predicted it? Here's one the JSWT saw!

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Temperate exoplanet LHS 1140 b may be a world completely covered in ice (left) similar to Jupiter’s moon Europa or be an ice world with a liquid substellar ocean and a cloudy atmosphere (centre). LHS 1140 b is 1.7 times the size of our planet Earth (right) and is the most promising habitable zone exoplanet yet in our search for liquid water beyond the Solar System

James Webb Telescope data strongly supports life on other "habitable" planet in new ocean discovery

By Leonie Helm published

News LHS 1140 b sits in a habitable 'Goldilocks zone', meaning it is neither too hot, not too cold to host water, and therefore life

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L1527, shown in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), is a molecular cloud that harbors a protostar. It resides about 460 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus. The more diffuse blue light and the filamentary structures in the image come from organic compounds known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), while the red at the center of this image is an energized, thick layer of gases and dust that surrounds the protostar. The region in between, which shows up in white, is a mixture of PAHs, ionized gas, and other molecules. This image includes filters representing 7.7 microns light as blue, 12.8 microns light as green, and 18 microns light as red

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope photographs incredible celestial fireworks display caused by forming star

By Leonie Helm published

News In the neck of the hourglass shape, a central protostar, about 100,000 years old, can be seen growing

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The Pillars of Creation

Spatial 3D, NASA Style – soar through the Pillars of Creation in this combined Webb + Hubble visualization

By Leonie Helm published

News Viewers can view the most comprehensive and detailed multiwavelength movie yet of these star-birthing clouds

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This infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was taken by the NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) for the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or JADES, program. The NIRCam data was used to determine which galaxies to study further with spectroscopic observations. One such galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0 (shown in the pullout), was determined to be at a redshift of 14.32 (+0.08/-0.20), making it the current record-holder for the most distant known galaxy.

Earliest and most distant galaxy ever photographed with James Webb Space Telescope

By Leonie Helm published

News This is not only an incredible technological achievement, it could also unlock the mysteries of how the universe began

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Jame Webb Space Telescope capture

James Webb Space Telescope photographs gigantic star cluster 161,000 light years away from Earth

By Hannah Rooke published

News The latest capture of the colossal N79 is a dazzling collection of colourful gas clouds and bright starburst

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