When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a young red star in the constellation Columba, they noticed ...

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of operation, Webb has captured some truly stunning cosmic vistas ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access the inner planets. Now the results are in, and we can do interesting ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the ... hunt its lowest mass limit of brown dwarfs. The search turned up free-floating objects roughly two to three times the mass ...

This near-infrared image of a portion of the Flame Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope highlights three ... pressure from gravity they heat up, and if there is enough material then ...

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three years ago, gives us the ability to take photographs of deep space with ...

Furthermore, scientists think the gases may show up in higher concentrations ... as few as 13 hours with James Webb. That is similar or lower, by a lot, to how much telescope time you’d need ...

A deep dive into the star-forming Flame Nebula by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... Now, JWST has picked up the baton and completed what scientists called "a quantum leap" in understanding ...

A new James Webb Space Telescope study finds that Sagittarius ... A big burst of brightness suddenly popped up. Then, it calmed down again. We couldn’t find a pattern in this activity.

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