Tag: Webb
Hubble, Webb spot surprisingly smooth disk around Vega
In the 1997 movie "Contact," adapted from Carl Sagan's 1985 novel, the lead character scientist Ellie Arroway (played by actor Jodi Foster) takes a s [...]
Webb reveals jets of volatile gas in hybrid objects
Inspired by the half-human, half-horse creatures that are part of Ancient Greek mythology, the field of astronomy has its own kind of centaurs: dista [...]
Webb provides another look into galactic collisions
Smile for the camera! An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the spiral [...]
Portrait of interacting galaxies on Webb’s anniversary
Two for two! A duo of interacting galaxies commemorates the second science anniversary of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which takes constant obs [...]
Webb captures celestial fireworks around forming star
The cosmos seems to come alive with a crackling explosion of pyrotechnics in this new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Taken with Webb’s [...]
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 [...]
Galaxy forming in early universe caught by Webb
Researchers analyzing data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed three galaxies that may be actively forming when the universe was o [...]
Universe’s expansion rate, puzzle persists
Webb measurements shed new light on a decade-long mystery.
One of the three scientific justifications to the U.S. Congress for building the Hubble [...]