Tag: Planet
Webb Maps Uranus’ Upper Atmosphere
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided the first vertical view of Uranus’s ionosphere in this image released on Feb. 19, 2026, revealing auroras [...]
Webb captures frigid world on bizarre orbit
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has notched another milestone, capturing a direct image of a distant, frigid planet in a solar system unlike ou [...]
Surprise in autopsy of planet swallowed by star
Observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is believed to be the first st [...]
NASA discovers huge exoplanet with a tail
The hot Jupiter WASP-69b is trailing a vast tail that's at least 7 times the width of the planet, scientists say.
A comet-like planet beyond our s [...]
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 arises new thinking on planet formation
In this artist concept, the young star SZ Chamaeleontis -SZ Cha- is surrounded by a disk of dust and gas with the potential to form a planetary syste [...]

Webb captures a ringed Uranus
All Credit: webbtelescope.org
A zoomed-in image of Uranus, captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on Feb. 6, 2023, reveals stunning view [...]
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