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August 28, 2026

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to launch from Florida’s Space Coast MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. — The Nancy Grace…

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Orange-hued, grainy circular image of a star at the center with a glowing ring to the left and a smaller bright spot to the right, indicated by an arrow. The background is dark with scattered noise.

July 21, 2026

‘This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows Beta Pictoris d, a new planet found orbiting…

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Colorful nebula with bright stars scattered across a vivid blue and orange cosmic cloud, resembling a mountainous landscape in outer space.

July 12, 2026

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is celebrating its fourth birthday today, and like PetaPixel did two years…

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223-Megapixel Photo Shows 16.5 Million Stars and Took Three Days to Capture

June 25, 2026

‘Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image edge-on starburst galaxy Messier 82 and trace its evolutionary…

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This Webb image shows the highly distorted red galaxy MRG-M0138 seen through a foreground cluster of galaxies (white sources). Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb.

June 6, 2026

A supermassive black hole 6 billion times the mass of the Sun lurks in MRG-M0138, a gravitationally lensed…

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This Webb/NIRCam image shows the little red dot Abell2744-QSO1, magnified and triply imaged by galaxy cluster Abell 2744. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Lukas Furtak, Ben-Gurion University / Alyssa Pagan, STScI.

May 29, 2026

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found an enormous black hole in the early Universe…

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$This image of Messier 77 from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) highlights its swirling spiral arms, the dust in its disk and its piercingly bright core like never before. The bright orange lines appearing to radiate out from the galaxy’s center are not actually a feature of the galaxy: they are a type of distortion that arises from the optical design of the telescope. Called diffraction spikes, they are created because the intense light from the unresolved AGN is bent (diffracted) very slightly at the edges of Webb’s hexagonal mirror panels and around one of the struts that hold up its secondary mirror. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / A. Leroy.$

May 12, 2026

New images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope capture the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77 as a…

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James Webb Space Telescope Captures a Baby Planet Being Born Just 525 Light-Years Away—in a Stunning, Never-Before-Seen Image

March 27, 2026

Astronomers have taken a major step forward in understanding how planets form. Using the powerful James Webb Space…

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These Webb images show PMR 1, a planetary nebula some 5,000 light-years away in the constellation of Vela. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Joseph DePasquale, STScI.

February 28, 2026

The unmatched sensitivity of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope in both near- and mid-infrared light sheds new…

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Tiranti et al. mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’ upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the planet. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / STScI / P. Tiranti / H. Melin / M. Zamani, ESA & Webb.

February 22, 2026

For the first time, astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’ ionosphere, uncovering unexpected temperature peaks, weakened…

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Little red dots are young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / Rusakov et al., doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09900-4.

January 16, 2026

Astrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen show that the enigmatic ‘little red dots’ — red sources scattered across…

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Webb discovers rapidly growing black hole in the very early universe

November 23, 2025

9 Using the joint NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope, a group of astronomers has…

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to launch from Florida

Researchers Used Two Telescopes to Discover a Planet Hidden In Plain Sight

The 25 Best James Webb Space Telescope Photos

223-Megapixel Photo Shows 16.5 Million Stars and Took Three Days to Capture

Webb Weighs Most Distant Inactive Black Hole Ever Found

Webb Spots Supermassive Black Hole Older Than Its Home Galaxy

Webb Peers into Brilliant Heart of Messier 77

James Webb Space Telescope Captures a Baby Planet Being Born Just 525 Light-Years Away—in a Stunning, Never-Before-Seen Image

Webb’s Infrared Vision Reveals Planetary Nebula that Looks Strikingly Like Celestial Brain

Webb Reveals Hidden Layers of Uranus’ Upper Atmosphere

Early Universe’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Supermassive Black Holes, Astrophysicists Say

Webb discovers rapidly growing black hole in the very early universe