When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. NGC 3972, located 66 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, was one of 10 galaxies used to measure the expansion of the universe in a new study. | Credit: Yuval Harpaz, data via JWST Observations by the… Read More »
Forget “little green men”; it was the “little red dots” in the infant universe that caught the eye of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Scientists say the strange red objects hide stars that models suggest are “too old” to have existed in early cosmic times, as well as black holes thousands of times more… Read More »
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found previously unseen structures and activity in Jupiter’s atmosphere above the Great Red Spot. These strange features appear to be caused by strong atmospheric gravitational waves. The Great Red Spot is the largest storm in the solar system, twice the size of Earth and believed to… Read More »
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered clusters of stars in the “Cosmic Stones” arc that existed only 460 million years after the Big Bang. This marks the first discovery of star clusters in a newborn galaxy, seen when the 13.8 billion-year-old universe was less than 500 million years old. Originally discovered… Read More »
Exoplanet WASP 107b is a gas giant almost as large as Jupiter but much less massive. Based on this discrepancy, astronomers did not know how a planet like WASP 107b could exist. But now two independent teams of researchers have harnessed the power of JWST to solve the mystery. There’s a planet in our cosmic… Read More »
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered not one but two of the oldest and most distant galaxies ever seen, and continues to break previous records. The most distant galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0, appears to exist approximately 300 million years after the Big Bang and at least 100 million years before the previous record holder. This… Read More »
The Orion Nebula may be a familiar and well-studied celestial object, but new images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) show this star-forming cloud of gas and dust in an incredibly new and vivid light. The Orion Nebula, also known as “Messier 42” (M42), is located approximately 1,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation… Read More »
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has zoomed into the heart of the Cigar Galaxy, a region of space engulfed in flames by an explosive period of star birth. At the core of this starburst galaxy, also known as Messier 82 (M82), is a compact but turbulent environment that could give scientists a clearer picture… Read More »
What was little more than a speck of light to the Hubble Space Telescope turns out to be one of the oldest galaxies ever discovered — and it owes the finding to none other than Hubble’s little brother, the James Webb Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope international “Glass” Collaboration has made detailed observations… Read More »
Recently released James Webb Space Telescope images of 19 distant galaxies shed an entirely new, dynamic and vibrant light on these magnificent realms. The trove of cosmic portraits taken by this $10 billion telescope reveal highly detailed and quite breathtaking front views of the spirals seen from the instrument’s vantage point in space. These JWST… Read More »