The James Webb Space Telescope has captured 19 spiral galaxies "face-on" in near- and mid-infrared. The images "show stars, gas, and dust on the smallest scales ever observed beyond our own galaxy," ...
The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a powerful tool for exploring space, launched in December 2021. It can see faraway ...
Pocock, who has worked on the JWST, catalogues the science behind its most stunning images in her new book, Webb's Universe. Here's her pick of the telescope’s best shots ...
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.
This pair of galaxies is currently in the process of colliding and merging into one, a process that will take around a billion years.
The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ...
Vega, one of the brightest, most famous and most important stars in the night sky, has no evidence of giant planets around it ...
Stare deeply at these galaxies. They appear as if blood is pumping through the top of a flesh-free face. The long, ghastly ...
The New York Times needle hasn’t started twitching yet ... I keep the photo archive for the James Webb Space Telescope, the ...
NASA, on Wednesday, unveiled the first look of its brand new space telescopes. Taking to social media, the agency shared ...