NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed two dozen previously unseen newborn stars about 7,500 light years from Earth, according to a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Astronomer Megan Reiter from Rice University and her colleagues discovered these unseen young stars after taking a "deep dive" into one of the first images captured …
The previous week was an important week for space and astronomy because several milestones were achieved in these fields. The world's largest and most powerful space telescope has captured the image of a galaxy cluster as it appeared billions of years ago, detected the presence of water on an exoplanet, revealed exceptional details of the Southern Ring Planetary Nebula, shed …
NASA released the first five full-colour images from the James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday, July 12. Southern Ring Nebula: How A Dying Star Behaves Southern Ring Planetary Nebula Webb's third image to be unveiled is that of the Southern Ring planetary nebula or the "Eight-burst Nebula". The powerful infrared view of Webb has brought the nebula's second star into …
A composite image of the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula, created with NIRCam and MIRI instrument data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe and released July 12, 2022. Arrows point to hexagonal shames in the first full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope …
