Years ago, the now defunct NASA Spitzer telescope spotted a handful of unusual debris disks around young stars ... Observations with JWST and archival data from Spitzer have since expanded the catalog by several times ... ... Image credit ... .
BGU astronomer Adi Zitrin's JWST UNCOVER collaboration wins the 2027 Berkeley Prize for revealing early galaxies and black holes. The JWST UNCOVER collaboration will receive the 2027 Lancelot M.
JWST has now pushed that limit way down. In one of its largest-ever images, JWST mapped the star-forming cloud IC 348... This has already been an interesting target for JWST ... JWST will continue to observe ...
For decades, astronomers thought rings were something only giant planets had ... “It was a surprise,” says Pablo Santos-Sanz, an astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Granada, Spain ... We don’t know exactly why. Shadowing a star.
They used JWST to obtain exceptionally deep spectra of nine massive galaxies seen as they were about seven billion years ago, combining them with earlier observations from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile.
The JamesWebb Space Telescope (JWST) is celebrating its fourth birthday today, and like PetaPixel did two years ago, it's the perfect opportunity to look at the 25 best space photos Webb has captured thus far. [Read More] ... .
Ever since the advent of JWST, astronomers have been able to detect massive black holes at galaxy centers within the first billion years of the universe ... JWST's 'overmassive' early black holes may not ...