Sunday, June 4, 2023

James Webb Space Telescope

Astrophysicists confirm the existence of the faintest galaxy ever seen

The small, distant galaxy JD1 is typical of the kind that burned through hydrogen left over from the Big Bang.

Webb maps surprisingly large plume jetting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus

A water vapour plume from Saturn’s moon Enceladus spanning more than 9600 kilometres — long enough to stretch across the Eurasian continent from Ireland...

The warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut

Astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the...

Webb finds water vapor around a rocky exoplanet

Water vapor in an atmosphere on a hot rocky planet would represent a major breakthrough for exoplanet science.

Tiny galaxy with big star power

Galaxy is the smallest ever discovered at this distance.

NASA’S JWST measures the temperature of a rocky exoplanet

An international team of researchers has used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to measure the temperature of the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b. The...

Webb spotted silicate cloud features in a remote planet’s atmosphere

Researchers observing with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed silicate cloud features in a distant planet’s atmosphere. The atmosphere is constantly rising,...

Webb offers first look at star formation, gas, and dust in nearby galaxies

Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope are getting their first look at star formation, gas, and dust in nearby galaxies with unprecedented...

NASA’s Webb new images of Pandora’s Cluster show a stronger, wider, better lens

The new view of Pandora’s Cluster stitches four Webb snapshots together into one panoramic image.

Astronomers pinpointed the ‘Engine’ of luminous merging galaxies for the first time

This source was deeply hidden by cosmic dust.

Webb detects a previously unknown 100–200-meter asteroid

Extremely small main-belt asteroid.

Astronomers measured the cosmic age of a most distant galaxy

This discovery confirms the existence of galaxies in the very early Universe found by the JWST.

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