Tag: ESA
Pillars of Creation in 3D as seen by Hubble and Webb
Made famous in 1995 by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the Pillars of Creation in the heart of the Eagle Nebula have captured imagination worldwide wi [...]
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 [...]