Tag: ESA
Striking new Webb image of star formation
For the first time, a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped to directly image has been captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared [...]
Webb finds 10 times more supernovae in early universe
Peering deeply into the cosmos, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving scientists their first detailed glimpse of supernovae from a time when ou [...]
Webb finds plethora of carbon molecules around young star
An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study the disk of gas and dust around a young, very low-mass star, [...]
Webb captures iconic Horsehead nebula in unprecedented detail
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of a zoomed-in portion of one of the most distinctive objects in [...]
NASA affirms, universe keeps expanding
Webb measurements shed new light on a decade-long mystery. NASA's telescopes Webb and Hubble confirm universe's expansion rate, while the puzzle pers [...]
Peering into the tendrils of NGC 604
The formation of stars and the chaotic environments they inhabit is one of the most well-studied, but also mystery-shrouded, areas of cosmic investig [...]
Webb finds neutron star at SN-1987A
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for emission from a neutron star at the site of a recently observed supernova. The [...]
Webb finds signs of aurorae on brown dwarf
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a brown dwarf (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller than a star) with infra [...]
Webb shows early galaxies in odd shapes
Researchers using Webb found that many distant galaxies have flattened oval disk and tube-like shapes, not spiral or elliptical structures.
Webb h [...]
Hubble catches a vast galactic neighborhood
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features a richness of spiral galaxies:
The large, prominent spiral galaxy on the right side [...]