One of the most famous objects in space has been imaged by our most powerful telescopes, and now scientists have produced an amazing 3D visualization of The Pillars of Creation, revealing it in greater detail than ever before. Roughly 7,000 light years away from Earth is an immense cloud of dust and gas known as […]
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have found previously unseen structures and activity in Jupiter’s atmosphere above the Great Red Spot. These odd features seem to be caused by powerful atmospheric gravity waves. The Great Red Spot is the largest storm in the solar system, twice as big as Earth, and is believed to have been […]
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have found previously unseen structures and activity in Jupiter’s atmosphere above the Great Red Spot. These odd features seem to be caused by powerful atmospheric gravity waves. The Great Red Spot is the largest storm in the solar system, twice as big as Earth, and is believed […]
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered star clusters in the “Cosmic Gems” arc that existed just 460 million years after the Big Bang. This marks the first discovery of star clusters in an infant galaxy, seen as it was when the 13.8 billion-year-old universe was less than 500 million years old. […]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered what could be the earliest star clusters in the universe. JWST spotted the five proto-globular clusters — swarms of millions of stars bound together by gravity — inside the Cosmic Gems arc, a galaxy that formed just 460 million years after the Big Bang. The Cosmic Gems […]
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken another extraordinary photo. The subject is the Serpens Nebula, which lies about 1,300 light-years from Earth. And the new JWST image showcases a very special phenomenon long theorized to exist, but never before observed. In the upper left part of the photo are several “protostellar outflows,” or jets […]
The image of the Serpens Nebula you see above, taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), not only looks mesmerizing but also captures a never-before-seen phenomenon. The aligned, elongated “protostellar outflows” visible in the top left support a longstanding theory. As suspected, the jets shoot out in alignment from the swirling disks of surrounding […]
In July 1054, astronomers in China documented a “guest star” in the sky that shone as brightly as Jupiter for nearly a month before gradually fading into invisibility. That “star” was, in fact, a cloud of debris blown into space by a dying star roughly 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. In the 19th […]
A new photo of the Crab Nebula, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, is helping scientists parse the composition and history of the ancient supernova remnant. The Crab Nebula, located in the constellation Taurus, is the result of a supernova explosion that was seen on Earth in 1054 C.E. and was bright enough to […]
“The James Webb Telescope: Are We Alone?” on The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper offers an inside look at the most powerful telescope ever built. The show premieres Sunday, June 16, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CNN. A collision between giant asteroids likely occurred in a neighboring star system called Beta Pictoris in recent years, […]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found evidence of two giant asteroids slamming into each other in a nearby star system. The colossal collision ejected 100,000 times more dust than the impact that killed the dinosaurs. The violent impact occurred recently in Beta Pictoris, a star system located 63 light-years away in the constellation […]
When it comes to hunting for the explosive deaths of massive stars in the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is quite the cosmic detective. This celestial Sherlock Holmes has found evidence of 80 new early supernovas in a patch of sky as wide as a grain of rice held at arm’s length. […]