Wherever the JWST looks in space, matter and energy are interacting in spectacular displays. The Webb reveals more detail in…
The Crab Nebula has always fascinated me, albeit amazed me that it doesn’t look anything like a crab! It’s the…
The JWST keeps one-upping itself. In the telescope's latest act of outdoing itself, it examined a distant exoplanet to map…
The exoplanet census now stands at 5,599 confirmed discoveries in 4,163 star systems, with another 10,157 candidates awaiting confirmation. So…
You think you know someone, then you see them in a slightly different way and BAM, they surprise you. I’m…
In the quest to understand how and where life might arise in the galaxy, astronomers search for its building blocks.…
Astronomy is all about light. Sensing the tiniest amounts of it, filtering it, splitting it into its component wavelengths, and…
When the JWST activated its penetrating infrared eyes in July 2022, it faced a massive wish-list of targets compiled by…
NASA's DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) slammed into asteroid Dimorphos in September 2022, changing its orbital period. Ground and…
A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters used data obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) Mid-Infrared…