James Webb Space Telescope
An Epic Collaboration Between Hubble and JWST
Hubble and Webb have come together to create one of the most detailed and revealing images of an iconic galaxy…
Supermassive Black Holes Shut Down Star Formation During Cosmic Noon
Using data from Webb's NIRSpec instrument, an international team has confirmed that quasars shut down star formation in galaxies billions…
JWST Confirms the Formation of Heavy Elements in a Kilonova
A recent study published in Nature investigates recent observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and ground-based telescopes of…
A New Weather Feature was Hiding in JWST’s Picture of Jupiter
In July 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) used its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) to capture stunning infrared images of…
The Combination of Oxygen and Methane Could Reveal the Presence of Life on Another World
In a recent study, a pair of researchers from the Carl Sagan Institute developed a model for finding exoplanets similar…
An Exoplanet so Hot it has Clouds Made of Quartz
A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters used data obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) Mid-Infrared…
JWST Observes the Kuiper Belt: Sedna, Gonggong, and Quaoar
Using data acquired by the JWST, an international team of planetary scientists have revealed new insights about some of the…
TRAPPIST-1 Has Flares. What Does This Mean for its Planets?
Using spectra obtained by Webb, an international team examined three TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets during a series of flares.
Hubble Sees a Mysterious Flash in Between Galaxies
Hubble and other observatories worldwide have witnessed a Luminous Fast Blue Optical event between two galaxies.
Those Impossibly Massive Early Galaxies Might Just Be Surprisingly Bright
A new series of simulations from Northwestern shows that those impossibly large galaxies were actually just very, very bright!