Tag: ESA
Hubble sights a galaxy with ‘Forbidden’ light
This whirling image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG-01-24-014, which is located about 275 million light-years from Earth.
In addition [...]
Webb updates image of ringed planet Uranus
When Voyager 2 flew past Uranus in 1986, the planet appeared to be a nearly featureless, solid blue ball. Now, Webb shows us an infrared view that is [...]
Italy’s Mount Etna lava is captured from space
One of the world’s most active volcanoes, Mount Etna, erupted on Sunday November 12th, spewing lava and clouds of ash high over the Mediterranean isl [...]
NASA’s Webb Snaps Supersonic Outflow of Young Star
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a high-resolution look at Herbig-Haro 211 (HH 211), a bipolar jet traveling through interstellar space [...]
Crescent-like structures now visible in Supernova 1987A
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered new details in Supernova 1987A with its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument, reports NASA.
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Hubble images a starstruck galaxy
The irregular galaxy Arp 263 lurks in the background of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, but the view is dominated by a stellar p [...]
These stars have a lot of energy to let loose
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-in [...]
Webb captures a close look at Saturn
On June 25, 2023, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope turned to famed ringed world Saturn for its first near-infrared observations of the planet. The i [...]
Webb identifies earliest strands of cosmic web
A filament of 10 galaxies seen just 830 million years after the birth of the universe
Woven across our universe is a weblike structure of galaxies [...]
NASA’s Webb Finds Water, and a New Mystery
The James Webb Space Telescope’s latest discovery is a tale of two detections.
Solar system scientists took NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on a [...]