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Alien megastructures? Cosmic thumbprint? What’s behind a James Webb telescope photo that had even astronomers stumped
NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / JPL / Caltech Peter Tuthill, University of Sydney In July,…
The Infrared Science Behind the James Webb Space Telescope
Aside from a pretty glaring source of visible light in the form of the Sun, there’s not much…
A cosmic time machine: how the James Webb Space Telescope lets us see the first galaxies in the universe
NASA/JWST Sara Webb, Swinburne University of Technology It has been an exciting week with the release of breathtaking…
To search for alien life, astronomers will look for clues in the atmospheres of distant planets – and the James Webb Space Telescope just proved it’s possible to do so
TRAPPIST-1e is a rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone of a star 40 light-years from Earth and may…
How the James Webb deep field images reminded me the divide between science and art is artificial
NASA/STScI, CC BY-SA Cherine Fahd, University of Technology Sydney The first task I give photography students is to…
James Webb telescope: a scientist explains what its first, amazing images show – and how it will change astronomy
A star forming region in the Milky Way. NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI Martin Barstow, University of Leicester…
The James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to do science – and it’s seeing the universe more clearly than even its own engineers hoped for
The mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope is fully aligned and producing incredibly sharp images, like this…
Astronomy’s 10-year wish list: Big money, bigger telescopes and the biggest questions in science
The Hubble Space Telescope was born from a previous decadal survey. What leaps forward will come from this…
Dr. Paul Sutter Asks: What Are Lagrange Points?
Dr. Paul Sutter, in an effort to ease viewers into the majesty of the James Webb Space Telescope,…
The Hubble Space Telescope Just Spotted the Most Distant Star We’ve Ever Seen
Just months after the launch of the new James Webb Space Telescope, the experienced Hubble Space Telescope just…