Webb Sees Jupiter-Size Exoplanet Being Roasted by Its Star
HD 80606b has one of the most extreme orbits of any known exoplanet and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb…
Astronomers Find Four Separate Generations of Stars in ‘Globular Cluster’ Terzan 5
A globular cluster typically has only one ancient star population. New data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space…
Webb Delivers Strongest-Ever Case for ‘Black Hole Stars’ Lurking in Early Universe
For several years, astronomers have been puzzling over a peculiar population of objects discovered by the NASA/ESA/CSA James…
Webb Weighs Most Distant Inactive Black Hole Ever Found
A supermassive black hole 6 billion times the mass of the Sun lurks in MRG-M0138, a gravitationally lensed…
Webb Detects Methane on Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
Using the spectral data from the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have…
Webb Detects Methane in Atmosphere of Exo-Saturn TOI-199b
Using spectral data from the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers analyzed the…
With a mass of about 50 billion times that of the Sun, this black hole is one of the largest ever discovered
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing a black hole in the universe. Astronomers have recently discovered a…
Webb Peers into Brilliant Heart of Messier 77
New images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope capture the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77 as a…
Webb Discovers Slow-Rotating Galaxy in Early Universe
In today’s Universe, most galaxies are held together by orderly rotation. But among the largest, no-longer star-forming systems,…
Webb Spots Icy Clouds on Distant Jupiter-Like Exoplanet
Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected water-ice clouds swirling through the atmosphere of Epsilon…
Webb and Hubble Telescopes Capture Saturn in Unprecedented Detail
By combining infrared observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope with visible-light imagery from the NASA/ESA Hubble…
Webb Captures Io’s and Europa’s Auroral Footprints in Jupiter’s Atmosphere
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope conducted a clockwise scan around the entire limb of Jupiter, chasing aurora…