Astronomers exploring the distant universe with NASA’s most powerful telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, have found a class of galaxies that challenge even the most talented creatures at mimicking—like the mimic octopus. This creature can imitate other marine animals to avoid predators. Need to be a flatfish? No problem. Need to be a sea… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. A three-colour image of the galaxy ESO 428-G14 captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. | Credit: NASA/ESA/JWST Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to image the dust and gas structure around a distant supermassive black… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. A drawing shows what the universe might look like when it’s less than 1 billion years old. | Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Schaller (for STScI) When NASA’s next great extraterrestrial observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, opens… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration shows the moon Ariel orbiting the ice giant Uranus. | Credit: Robert Lea (Created with Canva)/NASA Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered that Uranus’ moon Ariel may be hiding in a buried ocean… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration of a hot Jupiter orbiting a red dwarf star. | Credit: T. Müller (MPIA/HdA) Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect a new “super-Jupiter” planet that is one of the coldest worlds ever… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration of the powerful storms and silicate clouds found in the atmospheres of brown dwarfs. | Credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech/University of Western Ontario/Stony Brook University/Tim Pyle The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected stormy weather in the skies around… Read More »
Shortly after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began its scientific operations, astronomers announced that they had discovered galaxies in the early universe that were very large, bright, and full of stars for their age. While headlines around the world claimed that these galaxies “broke” our understanding of the Big Bang, the truth is much… Read More »
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a huge impact on astronomy since it began sending data back to Earth in 2022, and one of its most revolutionary achievements has been the observation of some of the most distant galaxies ever seen. But because light doesn’t travel instantaneously — instead, it travels at about… Read More »
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have observed the dramatic “dance” between a supermassive black hole and two satellite galaxies. The observations could help scientists better understand how galaxies and supermassive black holes grew in the early universe. This particular supermassive black hole feeds off of its surrounding matter, powering a bright quasar… Read More »
It could be argued that the search for habitability elsewhere in the universe can be reduced to the search for water. We have yet to find life forms that separate this matter from our understanding of “life,” so we have no choice but to accept the cosmic water signature as our north star in our… Read More »