This image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the heart of M74, otherwise known as the Phantom Galaxy. Webb’s sharp vision has revealed delicate…
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This illustration shows what exoplanet WASP-39 b could look like, based on the current understanding of the planet.WASP-39 b is a hot, puffy gas giant…
Webb NIRCam composite image of Jupiter from three filters – F360M (red), F212N (yellow-green), and F150W2 (cyan) – and alignment due to the planet’s rotation.…
An enormous mosaic of Stephan’s Quintet is the largest image to date from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, covering about one-fifth of the Moon’s diameter.…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center On December 25th, 2021, after many years of anticipation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) finally launched to space.…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the next of NASA’s Great Observatories; following in the line of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma-ray…
Jupiter, center, and its moon Europa, left, are seen through the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument 2.12 micron filter. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and…
A large pink, speckled galaxy resembling a wheel with a small, inner oval, with dusty blue in between on the right, with two smaller spiral…
TRAPPIST-1e is a rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone of a star 39 light-years from Earth and may have water and clouds, as depicted in…
A transmission spectrum made from a single observation using Webb’s Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) reveals atmospheric characteristics of the hot gas giant exoplanet…
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant Universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrup Grumman It has been a long journey for the James Webb Space…
This image of the Orion nebula, the brightest spot in the sword of the constellation Orion, shows carbon-rich molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) as…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its primary mirror into the same configuration it will have when in space during a deployment test in…
This Fine Guidance Sensor test image was acquired in parallel with NIRCam imaging of the star HD147980 over a period of eight days at the…
The evolution of infrared astronomy, from Spitzer to WISE to JWST. Credit: Andras Gaspar The scientific and astronomical communities are eagerly waiting for Tuesday, July…
This animation shows the path light will follow as it hits the primary James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mirror, and is reflected to the secondary,…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, the most powerful infrared science observatory ever to be sent into space.…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the next of NASA’s Great Observatories; following in the line of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma-ray…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrup Grumman The first full-color images and other data, coming July 12, 2022,…