NASA’s Webb Stuns With New High-Definition Look at Exploded Star

by Ben | Dec 12, 2023 | NASA

Mysterious features hide in near-infrared light Like a shiny, round ornament ready to be placed in the perfect spot on a holiday tree, supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) gleams in a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. As part of the 2023...

Webb Study Reveals Rocky Planets Can Form in Extreme Environments

by Ben | Dec 4, 2023 | NASA

An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and other molecules in the highly irradiated inner, rocky-planet-forming regions of a disk in one of the most extreme environments in our galaxy....

Webb Follows Neon Signs Toward New Thinking on Planet Formation

by Ben | Nov 19, 2023 | NASA

Scientists are following neon signs in a search for clues to one planetary system’s future and the past of another – our own solar system. Following up on a peculiar reading by NASA’s previous infrared flagship observatory, the now-retired Spitzer Space...

NASA’s Webb, Hubble Combine to Create Most Colorful View of Universe

by Ben | Nov 17, 2023 | Press Releases

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have united to study an expansive galaxy cluster known as MACS0416. The resulting panchromatic image combines visible and infrared light to assemble one of the most comprehensive views of the universe ever...

NASA’s Webb Makes First Detection of Heavy Element From Star Merger

by Ben | Oct 27, 2023 | NASA, Press Releases

Webb’s study of the second-brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen reveals tellurium. A team of scientists has used multiple space and ground-based telescopes, including NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, and NASA’s Neil Gehrels...