Milky way
The Milky Way is a huge collection of several hundred billion stars, dust, and gas. It is a spiral galaxy that is about 13.6 billion years old. The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes our Solar System. The Solar System is located at a radius of about 27,000 light-years from the galaxy’s center. The galaxy is rotating, and it takes us about 240 million years to complete one circle around its middle.
Webb reveals new features in the heart of the Milky Way
The play of darkness and light in our galaxy’s crowded core is put on display like never before.
Webb discovered the second-most distant galaxy
Follow-up observations in Pandora’s cluster confirmed the second- and fourth-most distant galaxies ever seen.
A galaxy like the Milky Way found in the early universe
The discovery is expected to change at least two aspects of astronomy.
Bursts of star formation explain mysterious brightness at cosmic dawn
Intense flashes of light, not mass, resolve the puzzle of impossible brightness.
Astronomers find an explanation for Milky Way’s warp
The results bolster hypothesis of how galaxy evolved.
Our universe may be a bit more stable than was supposed
JWST survey reveals fewer supermassive black holes than presumed.
The first evidence of a massive galaxy with no dark matter
The result is a challenge to the current standard model of cosmology.
Chemical mapping reveals the Milky Way’s spiral arms
Identifying regions of the Milky Way’s spiral arms that have previously gone undetected.
Webb observed the chemical signature of carbon-rich dust grains in the early Universe
Webb sees carbon-rich dust grains in the first billion years of cosmic time.