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Rare and beautiful image of dying star captured on James Webb space telescope

Shimmering in purple like a cherry blossom, the cast-off material once comprised the star's outer layer. It was one of the first made by the telescope when it launched in 2021

Daily Mirror · Mar 16, 2023

Radio interference from satellites is threatening astronomy – a proposed zone for testing new technologies could head off the problem

Visible light is just one part of the electromagnetic spectrum that astronomers use to study the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope was built to see infrared light, other space telescopes capture X-ray images, and observatories like the Green Bank Telescope, the Very Large Array, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array…

The Conversation · Mar 3, 2023

Webb sees galaxies that shouldn't exist

Six objects in a new photograph appear to be massive galaxies whose existence is impossible based on what we know

Salon · Feb 24, 2023

Tech & Science Daily podcast: Space telescope reveals secrets of how stars formed

With ESA Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope...

Evening Standard · Jan 13, 2023

NASA's busiest year in decades – an astronomer sums up the dizzying array of missions in 2022

NASA had a banner year in 2022, with many successful missions in what was one of the organization’s most active years in decades.

The Conversation · Jan 12, 2023

James Webb Space Telescope images offer insight into universe’s beginnings

Images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope offer insight into what a much younger universe may have looked like.

Evening Standard · Jan 12, 2023

NASA's James Webb discovers its first ever planet - and it's similar to Earth

The first ever planet discovered by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is located around 41 light-years away and could be similar to Earth, according to scientists

Daily Mirror · Jan 12, 2023

JWST images turn up galaxy-sized sonic booms disrupting gas clouds in distant cluster

One of the James Webb Space Telescope's first color image targets has a turbulent inner life.

Inverse · Jan 10, 2023

Look! JWST image may upend our understanding of the early universe

Astronomers peered into a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image. From this view of the deep Universe, they saw a large number of ancient galaxy candidates.

Inverse · Jan 10, 2023

Webb Telescope Promises New Age of the Stars

The James Webb Space Telescope lit up 2022 with dazzling images of the early universe after the Big Bang, heralding a new era of astronomy and untold revelations about the cosmos in years to come. The most powerful observatory sent into space succeeded the Hubble telescope, which is still operating,…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 27, 2022