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James Webb Space Telescope snaps stunning new image of Uranus

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Uranus is not the first planet that comes to astronomers' minds when they hear about rings; its more spectacular celestial cousins like Saturn and Jupiter earn that distinction. Yet the rings around Uranus are quite magnificent on their own, as revealed among other things by recent images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. While the Voyager 2 images of …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Nasa’s James Webb telescope captures new details of Milky Way galaxy

Live Mint

Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a colourful image of the centre of the Milky Way galaxy, revealing never-before-seen details that astronomers have yet to explain. In the images, Milky Way’s dense core can be seen in a new light with an estimated 500,000 glittering stars. The region captured by the NIRCam instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Researchers find second-most distant galaxy using James Webb telescope

Live Mint

It is turning out to be a month of more discoveries for the James Webb Space Telescope. Now, an international team led by Penn State researchers have discovered the second- and fourth-most distant galaxies ever observed in a region of space known as Pandora’s Cluster, or Abell 2744, using data from JWST. At nearly 33 billion light years away, these …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Webb telescope’s new image of eerie nearby galaxy reveals what early universe may have looked like

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Webb telescope’s new finding shows the eerie-looking and “irregular” galaxy NGC 6822, also known as Bernard’s …

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1 year, 4 months ago

NASA’s James Webb Space telescope captures image of most distant star

Live Mint

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of the most distant star known as ‘Earendel’. In parallel to the legacy of the renowned Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope from NASA has focused its gaze on the farthest star ever identified. While the Hubble initially glimpsed this star, the James Webb Telescope, armed with its specialised …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Webb Telescope looks at most distant star ever detected, twice as hot as Sun

India Today

Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope has observed the most distant star ever detected, named Earendel. Webb’s NIRCam instrument reveals the star, nicknamed Earendel, to be a massive B-type star more than twice as hot as our Sun, and about a million times more luminous. This makes Earendel the most distant star ever detected, observed just 1 billion years after the …

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1 year, 5 months ago

When a camera takes a selfie, and reveals a star

Hindustan Times

On March 16, 2022, NASA uploaded a selfie taken by the Near Infrared Camera on the James Webb Telescope on its Flickr handle. “More than 20 years ago, the Webb team set out to build the most powerful telescope that anyone has ever put in space and came up with an audacious optical design to meet demanding science goals,” said …

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1 year, 5 months ago

NASA celebrates James Webb Space Telescope's first anniversary with mesmerizing image of star's birth in stunning detail

Hindustan Times

The James Webb Space Telescope has marked its first anniversary with a breathtaking image showcasing the birth of a star in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. In this photo provided by NASA, technicians lift the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane, Close encounter with stellar creation The newly released image features the closest star-forming region to …

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1 year, 10 months ago

James Webb spots six massive galaxies that are so old they shouldn't exist

Daily Mail

NASA's new super space telescope was built to peer back to the dawn of time and give us clues about how the universe burst into existence. That's because the $10 billion observatory has just spotted six massive galaxies in the early universe that are so old they shouldn't actually exist. Ground-breaking: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has just spotted six …

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2 years, 2 months ago

James Webb Space Telescope Resolves 'Faint Stars' In Dwarf Galaxy Near Milky Way: All You Need To Know

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope never fails to enthral the world with its spellbinding images. With its infrared sensitivity, Webb, the world's most powerful telescope, has resolved faint stars in the nearby dwarf galaxy Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte. Spitzer Space Telescope's image of dwarf galaxy WLM ; Webb's image of WLM. McQuinn said that in Webb's image, one can see a myriad of …

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2 years, 2 months ago

James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Eerie Landscape Of Pillars Of Creation In 'Haunting Portrait'

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured some spooky images of the cosmos, which NASA revealed in October, the Halloween month. What the new image of the Pillars of Creation means The image, captured by Webb's MIRI, shows interstellar dust, setting a sombre, chilling mood. A recent image of the Pillars of Creation captured by Webb's Near-Infrared Camera revealed numerous …

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2 years, 2 months ago

NASA published a 'haunting portrait' of Pillars of Creation for Halloween. Here's why it's a spookier version of its sparkly twin

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NASA has published a new image of the Pillars of Creation using the James Webb Telescope, taken using technology that highlights the "eerie" clouds of dust rather than the sparkling stars around it. The NIRCam is sparkling with countless stars., Anton M Koekemoer, Alyssa Pagan ) The new image, taken using Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument, appears to be a darker, moodier …

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2 years, 2 months ago

James Webb Space Telescope Captures The Pillars Of Creation, Reveals Newly Formed Stars

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a sparkling image of the Pillars of creation, where stars are born. Webb’s sparkling image of the Pillars of Creation: Explained Webb's Near-Infrared Camera has captured the newly formed stars, which are the scene-stealers in the image of the Pillars of Creation. The James Webb Space Telescope's near-infrared light view has set off …

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2 years, 3 months ago

James Webb Space Telescope Captures Its First Images Of Mars. Know What They Mean

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope leaves no stone unturned to leave the world awestruck. On September 5, Webb, the world's most powerful telescope, captured its first images and spectra of Mars, providing everyone with interesting details about the Red Planet. Webb's Near-Infrared Camera captured the telescope's first images of Mars. At the top right, a NIRCam image shows sunlight reflected …

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2 years, 5 months ago

James Webb Space Telescope comes closer to home with new images of Jupiter and its moons

ABC

Hot on the heels of last week's release of the first images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope comes something that you can actually see from your backyard: Jupiter. Key points: The images are proof that Webb can observe satellites near bright solar system objects Jupiter's rings especially stand out in the NIRcam long-wavelength filter image This telescope may also …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Nasa secretly releases surprise images of our solar system, showing Jupiter from James Webb Space Telescope

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nasa secretly leaked two surprising new pictures of our own solar system. The …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Your burning questions about the new images of our cosmos from James Webb Space Telescope

ABC

NASA has released more images of galaxies thousands of light years away, captured by their James Webb Space Telescope. There's a chance Webb could find 'rogue worlds' "Is Webb capable of detecting planets orbiting stars in nearby galaxies?" Stephan’s Quintet, a collection of five galaxies, as seen by MIRI from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Galaxies thousands of light-years away …

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2 years, 10 months ago

James Webb Telescope gets clarity of vision as mirrors align

India Today

The James Webb Telescope, which is undergoing its commissioning phase, is slowly taking position in space to observe the distant universe and the first light after the Big bang. The James Webb team completed the segment alignment and image stacking process and is now making smaller adjustments to the positions of the mirrors. "The completion of this process, known as …

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2 years, 10 months ago

How is James Webb Telescope shaping up? 18 dots of starlight pave way

India Today

The 18 golden mirrors on the James Webb Telescope have begun to form the iconic hexagonal shape as engineers continue to align them from 15,00,000 kilometers away. Nasa released the image which showed that the team has moved each of Webb’s 18 primary mirror segments to bring 18 unfocused copies of a single star into a planned hexagonal formation. Nasa …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Locked and loaded! James Webb Telescope locks on star for guidance in space

India Today

Days after it began aligning the mirrors, the James Webb Telescope locked onto a guide star using its Fine Guidance Sensor to keep the telescope pointed to high accuracy. Engineers fired the Fine Guidance Sensor for aliveness and functional tests on January 28 after the telescope's first detection of starlight in the Near-Infrared Camera. The sensor, along with the Near-Infrared …

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2 years, 10 months ago

NASA's giant James Webb telescope spots its first star, takes a 'selfie'

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The image capturing process began on February 2, with Webb pointing at different positions around the predicted location of the star Star light, star bright, the James Webb Space Telescope has seen its first star – and even taken a selfie, NASA announced Friday. The light bounced off the segments to Webb’s secondary mirror, a round object located at the …

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2 years, 10 months ago

James Webb Telescope clicks selfie without a camera as first light hits golden mirrors

India Today

Nasa on Friday, February 11, released first-ever images taken from the James Webb Space Telescope, including a 'selfie' of its primary mirror. James Webb Telescope to feel the shivers in space at -223 degrees Celsius The Nasa Webb Telescope on its official twitter handle said, "This “selfie” taken by Webb of its primary mirror was not captured by an externally …

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2 years, 11 months ago

And then there was light! First photons strike iconic golden mirrors on James Webb Telescope

India Today

Over a week after arriving at the second Lagrangian point from where it will observe the birth of our universe, the James Webb Telescope began its three-month-long process to align the mirrors. The US space agency said that to work together, the telescope’s 18 primary mirror segments need to match each other to a fraction of a wavelength of light …

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James Webb Space Telescope snaps stunning new image of Uranus

Nasa’s James Webb telescope captures new details of Milky Way galaxy

Researchers find second-most distant galaxy using James Webb telescope

Webb telescope’s new image of eerie nearby galaxy reveals what early universe may have looked like

NASA’s James Webb Space telescope captures image of most distant star

Webb Telescope looks at most distant star ever detected, twice as hot as Sun

When a camera takes a selfie, and reveals a star

NASA celebrates James Webb Space Telescope's first anniversary with mesmerizing image of star's birth in stunning detail

James Webb spots six massive galaxies that are so old they shouldn't exist

James Webb Space Telescope Resolves 'Faint Stars' In Dwarf Galaxy Near Milky Way: All You Need To Know

James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Eerie Landscape Of Pillars Of Creation In 'Haunting Portrait'

NASA published a 'haunting portrait' of Pillars of Creation for Halloween. Here's why it's a spookier version of its sparkly twin

James Webb Space Telescope Captures The Pillars Of Creation, Reveals Newly Formed Stars

James Webb Space Telescope Captures Its First Images Of Mars. Know What They Mean

James Webb Space Telescope comes closer to home with new images of Jupiter and its moons

Nasa secretly releases surprise images of our solar system, showing Jupiter from James Webb Space Telescope

Your burning questions about the new images of our cosmos from James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Telescope gets clarity of vision as mirrors align

How is James Webb Telescope shaping up? 18 dots of starlight pave way

Locked and loaded! James Webb Telescope locks on star for guidance in space

NASA's giant James Webb telescope spots its first star, takes a 'selfie'

James Webb Telescope clicks selfie without a camera as first light hits golden mirrors

And then there was light! First photons strike iconic golden mirrors on James Webb Telescope