James Webb Space Telescope Launch

James Webb telescope captures stunning image in space

The first shocking images of the new James Webb Space Telescope

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than images from ground-based telescopes. In August of that year, Hubble made one of its first discoveries,

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James Webb telescope captures stunning image in space: Meet Leo P, a special dwarf galaxy

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb Telescope recently imaged.

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James Webb Space Telescope learns how a cosmic phoenix cools off to birth stars

Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James Webb Space Telescope has now learned how this galaxy cluster does it.

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Our galaxy's monster black hole is spitting out mysterious flares, James Webb telescope reveals

Sagittarius A*, our galaxy's supermassive black hole, is constantly producing strange eruptions. Astronomers are using the James Webb Space Telescope to find out why.

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NASA’s James Webb Telescope Captures Extraordinary Image of a Dwarf Galaxy 5 Million Light-Years Away

The James Webb telescope used a near-infrared camera to capture an image of the Leo P dwarf galaxy which is located in the Leo constellation.

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'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch

Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, ...

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James Webb Space Telescope unveils region with newborn star: See stunning photo

A stunning corner of the cosmos was recently revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope, and astronomers think the find will unveil more about the mysteries of both star and planet formation.

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Webb investigates protoplanetary disk in extreme detail, observes...

What’s more, Webb used its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument to observe glowing interstellar gas and dust illuminated ...

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Telescope Meant to Hunt for Water in Cosmic Dust Grains Ready for Launch

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is scheduled to launch after February 27, 2025 ...

Will an asteroid collide with Earth? How the Webb telescope will track 2024 YR4

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

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NASA’s Webb Space Telescope reveals ancient surface of Pluto and other celestial bodies for the first time

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Spectrograph instrument (NIRSpec) has “confirmed this, but in unexpected ways, and in unprecedented detail,” NASA explained in a ...

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Nasa's Pandora mission: Space agency moves closer to uncovering secrets of distant alien worlds

NASA’s Pandora mission nears launch, aiming to analyze exoplanet atmospheres for habitability clues. Using infrared ...

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