The Blue Marvel: NASA’s Voyager 2 captured this image of Neptune in the summer of 1989 as it became the first spacecraft to fly by the planet. Neptune's blue color comes from ...
Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.
10 unseen pictures of star clusters captured by NASA
The edge of a nearby stellar nursery called NGC 3324, found at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula, forms the “mountains” and “valleys” spanning this image captured by the James Webb Space ...
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Space Cadets, an Interactive NASA Hubble Space Telescope is Coming to Eastern Iowa
The skies over Iowa recently have been filled with Northern Lights on many nights and a comet, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) ...
Life Beyond Earth? NASA’s Webb Telescope Eyes Vital Clues on Distant Planets
Research indicates that the James Webb Space Telescope could help confirm the presence of life-supporting atmospheres on exoplanets in the "Goldilocks zone," enhancing the likelihood of discovering ...
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'Ridiculously smooth': James Webb telescope spies unusual pancake-like disk around nearby star Vega — and scientists can't explain it
The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming that it is not surrounded by any exoplanets, JWST images reveal. And ...
Nearly three years since launch, Webb is a hit among astronomers
From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human eyes ...
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James Webb telescope spots 'feasting' black hole eating 40 times faster than should be possible
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be eating 40 times faster than is theoretically possible.
On Election Night, Stare Into the Abyss
But because those galaxies are so far away, the pictures end up blurry ... which oversees not only the James Webb Space ...
Webb confirms a longstanding galaxy model
Perhaps the greatest tool astronomers have is the ability to look backward in time. Since starlight takes time to reach us, ...
5 breathtaking images of space captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope MIRI instrument
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a powerful tool for exploring space, launched in December 2021. It can see faraway ...
8 Incredible Images NASA Revealed This Week
As we enter the penultimate month of 2024, NASA has shared some spectacular images from across the universe and closer to ...
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Stare into the 'blood-soaked eyes' of 2 spooky galaxies in new Hubble, JWST images (video)
This pair of galaxies is currently in the process of colliding and merging into one, a process that will take around a billion years.