The galaxy Dragon Arc was observed along the line of sight to the galaxy cluster Abell 370, which acts as a cosmic magnifying glass.

Astronomers may have discovered the oldest objects ever observed by pushing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... was still young and undergoing significant transformation. Diagram of the ...

Inside the core of a star ... One of the James Webb Space Telescope's major goals is to investigate stellar nurseries like this one in Rho Ophiuchus. Credit: NASA/ESA/James Webb Space Telescope ...

A galaxy just 600 million years old, nicknamed “Firefly Sparkle,” has recently been discovered thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), offering ... a powerful gravitational lens that ...

Yet having traveled 13.2 billion years to reach us, the galaxy's 'sparkly' light can only be seen thanks to a combination of the most powerful space telescope ever built ... "There is so much going on ...

“There is so much going on inside this ... with the telescope’s specialization in high-resolution infrared light, Webb delivered unprecedented new data about the galaxy’s contents. “Without the ...

One of these missions is the Outer Planet Atmosphere Legacy (OPAL) project, which involves Hubble making yearly observations ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C (Sgr C). Reported to be around 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s central ...

Day 21 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: inside a chaotic nebula. Sharpless 2-106 is a nebula several light-years across, seen here by Hubble in 2011. It lies 2,000 light-years away ...

This would avoid the challenges of testing and launch-proofing large, complex structures, like habitats and telescopes, and give us the flexibility to change those structures if mission needs are ...

The universe is so large, it takes the light from stars a very long time to reach us. The light from the Sun itself comes from so far away, it takes 7 minutes to reach us. So if the Sun suddenly ...

Day 12 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a clash of titans. This mid-infrared image of colliding galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 from the James Webb Space Telescope shows two large ...