Vivid Portrait of Interacting Galaxies Marks Webb’s Second Anniversary
6 Min Read Vivid Portrait of Interacting Galaxies Marks Webb’s Second Anniversary Webb’s view of the interacting galaxies of Arp 142 that combines Webb’s NIRCam...
Category : James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Two Years Since Webb’s First Images: Celebrating with the Penguin and the Egg
The distorted spiral galaxy at center, the Penguin, and the compact elliptical at left, the Egg, are locked in an active embrace. This near- and...
NASA Webb, Hubble Scientist Marcia Rieke Awarded Gruber Cosmology Prize
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Marcia Rieke, a scientist who worked on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble...
Webb Finds Plethora of Carbon Molecules Around Young Star
5 Min Read Webb Finds Plethora of Carbon Molecules Around Young Star This is an artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a disk...
Former NASA Center Director, Scientist to Receive Presidential Medals
Medals of Freedom are displayed Thursday, July 7, 2022, before a ceremony at the White House. (Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith) President Joe...
The Horse’s Mane
Rising from turbulent waves of dust and gas is the Horsehead Nebula, otherwise known as Barnard 33, which resides roughly 1300 light-years away. The NASA/ESA/CSA James...
Peering Into the Tendrils of NGC 604 with NASA’s Webb
4 Min Read Peering Into the Tendrils of NGC 604 with NASA’s Webb Star-forming region NGC 604. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI The formation of...
Webb Unlocks Secrets of One of the Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen
5 Min Read Webb Unlocks Secrets of One of the Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument shows...
What is Dark Energy? Inside our accelerating, expanding Universe
11 min read What is Dark Energy? Inside our accelerating, expanding Universe Some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe began with a rapid expansion we...
Discovery Alert: A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone
4 min read Discovery Alert: A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone This illustration shows one way that planet TOI-715 b, a super-Earth in the habitable...
