The Space Telescope Science Institute has announced which astronomy proposals have been selected to be given time with the James Webb Space Telescope over the next two years. On Thursday (Feb. 29), the organization outlined 253 General Observers (GO) programs that will use humanity’s most powerful and sensitive space telescope for a collective 5,500 hours […]
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate a stellar nursery packed with infant stars in the Orion Nebula. The investigation has helped to uncover the effect that radiation from massive stars has on planet formation. The Orion Nebula is a massive complex of gas and dust that forms the building blocks of […]
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and an effect predicted by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago to discover that small galaxies in the early cosmos packed a massive punch, shaping the entire universe when it was less than 1 billion years old. The international team found the galaxies, which resemble dwarf […]
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the agency’s successor to the famous Hubble telescope, launched on Dec. 25, 2021 on a mission to study the earliest stars and peer back farther into the universe’s past than ever before. Webb is currently at its observing spot, Lagrange point 2 (L2), nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million km). […]
The James Webb Space Telescope’s infrared vision has transformed our view of a large, barred spiral galaxy, revealing its skeleton of dust illuminated by the glow of young stars. Visible-light images of NGC 1559, such as those taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, show a glowing whirlpool of light with bright, young star clusters scattered […]
Feb. 28—CARTERVILLE, Mo. — A 28-year-old defendant who shot another man seven months ago in Carterville received a suspended sentence and probation when he pleaded guilty this week to first-degree assault. Dylan S. Burns pleaded guilty Monday in Jasper County Circuit Court in a plea deal dismissing related counts of armed criminal action and resisting […]
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered an “extremely red” supermassive black hole growing in the shadowy, early universe. The red hue of the supermassive black hole, seen as it was around 700 million years after the Big Bang, is the result of the expanding universe. As the universe balloons outward in […]
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have ended a nearly decade-long game of celestial hide-and-seek after they discovered a neutron star in the wreckage of a stellar explosion. Supernova 1987A represents the remains of an exploded star that once had a mass around 8 to 10 times that of the sun. It is […]
Scientists have analyzed an unusually long blast of high-energy radiation, known as a gamma-ray burst (GRB), and determined that it originated from the collision of two ultradense neutron stars. And, importantly, this result helped the team observe a flash of light emanating from the same event that confirms these mergers are the sites that create […]
“A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away…” Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to map out the history of stars in a low-mass dwarf galaxy that resembles galaxies that filled the early universe. The research could help better understand how star formation rates have changed over the last […]
“What came first, the galaxy or its monster black hole?” Technically, it’s an even more ancient riddle than the one about the chicken or the egg — though we’ve only relatively recently become aware of it. And, according to new research, scientists may finally have an answer. Supermassive black holes that existed close to the […]
If the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) investigates tiny and bright galaxies in the early universe, it may be able to to shine a light on dark matter — the universe’s most mysterious stuff. Such is the conclusion reached by scientists from the University of California, who ran a simulation of the cosmos that tracks […]