by admin | Apr 10, 2024 | James Webb, Nasa, News, space, Space News, Telescopes, The Conversation
The James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST for short, is one of the most advanced telescopes ever built. Planning for JWST began over 25 years ago, and construction efforts spanned over a decade. It was launched into space on Dec. 25, 2021, and within a month arrived at... by admin | Feb 24, 2023 | Galaxies, James Webb, Nasa, News, Space News, The Conversation
“Look at this,” says Erica’s message. She is poring over the very first images from the brand new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). It is July 2022, barely a week after those first images from the revolutionary super telescope were released. Twenty-five years in the... by admin | Jan 18, 2023 | James Webb, Nasa, News, space, Space News, Telescopes, The Conversation
Two major astronomy research programs, called EMU and PEGASUS, have joined forces to resolve one of the mysteries of our Milky Way: where are all the supernova remnants? A supernova remnant is an expanding cloud of gas and dust marking the last phase in the life of a... by admin | Dec 12, 2022 | James Webb, Nasa, News, space, Space News, The Conversation
When the first five images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) were unveiled, one of them stared at me with two eyes. It was an image of the Southern Ring Nebula, NGC3132, and smack in the middle were two bright stars. Now, the fact that NGC3132 houses a binary... by admin | Oct 15, 2022 | James Webb, News, Other Tech News, space, Space News, The Conversation, WR140
In July, a puzzling new image of a distant extreme star system surrounded by surreal concentric geometric rungs had even astronomers scratching their heads. The picture, which looks like a kind of “cosmic thumbprint”, came from the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s... by admin | Sep 6, 2022 | James Webb, Nasa, News, Other Tech News, space, Space News, The Conversation
Did you ever want to see an alien world? A planet orbiting a distant star, light years from the Sun? Well, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just returned its first-ever picture of just that – a planet orbiting a distant star. The new images reveal JWST will...