It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...
For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the early stages of planet formation around a distant young star, HOPS-315, thanks to groundbreaking observations made using theJames Webb Space ...
Stars, gas and cosmic dust in the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud glow in near-infrared light, captured by Webb’s NIRCam instrument. The darkest areas of the image are not empty space but are areas ...
NASA's powerful James Webb Space telescope has revealed a colorful spread of stars and cosmic dust in the Milky Way's most active star-forming region. The telescope was studying Sagittarius B2, a ...
Learn when and where to see Comet Lemmon and Comet SWAN this October as they light up the night sky in a rare double comet ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a view of Lynds 483 (L483), an "actively forming star system," according to NASA. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) | edited by ...
Why it's so special: Stars in the Milky Way galaxy are born in huge molecular clouds. The most massive is Sagittarius B2, which is just a few hundred light-years from our the galaxy's central black ...