Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) captured this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across. It displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens…
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Scientists and musicians have created sonifications of images and data of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA New Tracks Combine Science and Art, Improving…
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…
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…
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…
This illustration shows a white dwarf star siphoning off debris from shattered objects in a planetary system. The Hubble Space Telescope detects the spectral signature…
This is an illustration of a close-up look at a black hole drifting through our Milky Way galaxy. The black hole is the crushed remnant…
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,…
Illustration showing what exoplanet 55 Cancri e could look like, based on current understanding of the planet. 55 Cancri e is a rocky planet with…
A representation of the evolution of the universe over 13.77 billion years. The far left depicts the earliest moment we can now probe, when a…
This artist’s illustration shows supernova 2013ge, with its companion star at the lower right. The companion star is impacted by the blast wave from the…
NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory…
This is an artist’s illustration of a supermassive black hole that is inside the dust-shrouded core of a vigorously star-forming “starburst” galaxy. It will eventually…
This sequence shows how the nucleus of Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) was isolated from a vast shell of dust and gas surrounding the solid icy…
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…
This is an artist’s illustration of the planet KELT-20b which orbits a blue-white star. The giant planet is so close to its star (5 million…
The Sunrise Arc Galaxy With Lensed Star Earendel Credit: Science: NASA, ESA, Brian Welch (JHU), Dan Coe (STScI), Image Processing: NASA, ESA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI)…
How can we detect planets around other stars? Planets are very faint and small compared to the stars they orbit. To overcome this challenge, scientists…
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,…