We thought we had seen everything but JWST just took it to another level. JWST surprised us in October with two new images of the famous Pillars of Creation, a cosmic feature of dust and gas made famous by Hubble. … Read More
It’s been a cloudy season for Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Titan is an strange world, resembling Earth if the land was made of water ice, rivers and seas were filled with liquid methane and other hydrocarbons, and the atmosphere was … Read More
James Webb is currently having issues with its MIRI instrument. The problem is caused by increased friction in one of MIRI’s mechanisms when operating in the Medium-Resolution Spectroscopy (MRS) mode. The observatory is otherwise in good condition, but the team … Read More
The unusual world is among the first targets studied by the new space observatory. Astronomers have released the first image of an exoplanet captured by JWST, and it shows a strange new world. The groundbreaking telescope is said to have … Read More
The newly processed image looks out of a sci-fi movie but it is very real Imagine dropping a shining gem into a dark pond, and you’ll get a close-up view of WR 140 as seen by JWST. Ripples spread from … Read More
The James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers’ new eye in the sky, has already captured images of the most distant galaxies ever seen. Now, NASA’s powerful infrared observatory is providing breathtaking views of our own cosmic neighborhood in snapshots released on … Read More