JWST
The JWST Just Found Carbon on Europa, Boosting the Moon’s Potential Habitability
Most planets and moons in the Solar System are clearly dead and totally unsuitable for life. Earth is the only…
It’s Like Looking at the Infant Sun: Webb Captures Image of an Energetic Young Star
Ever wondered what our young Sun might have looked like in its infancy some five billion years ago? The audacious…
JWST Turns its Gaze on the Farthest Known Star: Earendel
In March 2022, astronomers announced the discovery of the farthest known star via an image taken by the Hubble Space…
JWST Sees Multiple Gravitational Lenses in a Massive Cluster: “The Fishhook” and “The Thin One”
We've been getting plenty of spectacular images from the James Webb Space Telescope since it began operations last year. Fraser…
Jupiter’s Moons Get the JWST Treatment
A pair of studies published in JGR: Planets and Science Advances discuss new findings from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope…
Carbon-Based Molecules Seen Just a Billion Years After the Big Bang
The more astronomers look at the early Universe, the more discoveries they make. Some of those finds change what they…
JWST Sees the Most Distant Active Supermassive Black Hole
As astronomers push our views of the Universe further back in time, their telescopes keep uncovering surprises. That's the case…
JWST Shows How the Early Universe Was Furiously Forming Stars
We can gaze out into regions in our neighbourhood of the Milky Way and find orgies of star birth. The…
JWST Looks at the Atmosphere of a Stormy, Steamy Mini-Neptune
Just because there's no Mini-Neptune in our Solar System doesn't mean they're not common. They appear to be widespread throughout…
JWST Sees Merging Galaxies Releasing the Light of a Trillion Suns
If we want to know what it'll look like in about 4.5 billion years when our galaxy merges with Andromeda,…