This artist’s conception shows the fully unfolded James Webb Space Telescope in space. Credit: Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, NASA Animator The James Webb Space TelescopeThe James…
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Webb continues on its path to becoming a focused observatory. The team has successfully worked through the second and third out of seven total phases…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrup Grumman Are you curious to know how a telescope works? Join ESA…
This artist’s impression shows a rocky exoplanet with a wispy, cloudy atmosphere orbiting a red dwarf star. Credit: L. Hustak and J. Olmsted (STScI) The…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center The Webb team continues to make progress in aligning the observatory’s mirrors. Engineers have completed the first stage in…
Unprecedented Opportunity To Investigate the Next Interstellar Visitor With the Webb Space Telescope
This artist’s impression shows the first interstellar object discovered in the Solar System, `Oumuamua. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser Scientists will learn about objects…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center After starting the mirror alignment with Webb’s first detection of starlight in the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), the telescope team…
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,…
This illustration shows the cold side of the Webb telescope, where the mirrors and instruments are positioned. Credit: Northrop Grumman While we have started the…
Webb Space Telescope Provides New Tools To Search for the Building Blocks of Life on Distant Planets
This artist’s conception shows the fully unfolded James Webb Space Telescope in space. Credit: Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, NASA Animator How NASA in Silicon Valley Will…
[embedded content]This animation shows the path light will follow as it hits the primary James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb)…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrup Grumman Now begins the process of aligning all 18 mirror segments so…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Following Webb’s arrival at its orbital destination around Lagrange Point 2 (L2) on January 24, the mission operations team…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrup Grumman The Webb Space Telescope reaches its new home, remembering our fallen…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab The big news for Webb this week was the final insertion into orbit around the second…
The James Webb Space Telescope is the next great space science observatory following Hubble, designed to answer outstanding questions about the Universe and to make…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center An international research team will survey the stars, star clusters, and dust that lie within 19 nearby galaxies. To…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Last week, the Webb team began moving the observatory’s individual mirror segments out of their launch positions. Today, we…
Webb Space Telescope adjusting orientation. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Webb’s science goals cover a very broad range of themes, and will tackle many…
Webb Space Telescope adjusting orientation. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center UC Riverside astrophysicist explains the science. The James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space…