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NASA’s Hubble, Webb Probe Surprisingly Smooth Disk Around Vega

November 1, 2024

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In the 1997 movie “Contact,” adapted from Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel, the lead character scientist Ellie Arroway (played by actor Jodi Foster) takes a space-alien-built wormhole ride to the star Vega. She emerges inside a snowstorm of debris encircling the star — but no obvious planets are visible. It looks like the filmmakers got it…
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‘Blood-Soaked’ Eyes: NASA’s Webb, Hubble Examine Galaxy Pair

October 31, 2024

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Stare deeply at these galaxies. They appear as if blood is pumping through the top of a flesh-free face. The long, ghastly “stare” of their searing eye-like cores shines out into the supreme cosmic darkness. It’s good fortune that looks can be deceiving. These galaxies have only grazed one another to date, with the smaller…
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NASA’s Webb Reveals Unusual Jets of Volatile Gas from Icy Centaur 29P

October 2, 2024

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Inspired by the half-human, half-horse creatures that are part of Ancient Greek mythology, the field of astronomy has its own kind of centaurs: distant objects orbiting the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has mapped the gases spewing from one of these objects, suggesting a varied composition and providing new insights…
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In Odd Galaxy, NASA’s Webb Finds Potential Missing Link to First Stars

September 25, 2024

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Looking deep into the early universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: a galaxy with an odd light signature, which they attribute to its gas outshining its stars. Found approximately one billion years after the big bang, galaxy GS-NDG-9422 (9422) may be a missing-link phase of galactic evolution between the…
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NASA’s Webb Provides Another Look Into Galactic Collisions

September 18, 2024

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Smile for the camera! An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the spiral a happier outlook thanks to the two bright “eyes” and the wide semicircular “smile.” The region has been observed before in infrared by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2005, however…
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NASA’s Webb Peers into the Extreme Outer Galaxy

September 12, 2024

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Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than 58,000 light-years away from the Galactic Center. (For comparison, Earth is approximately 26,000 light-years from the center.) A team of scientists used Webb’s NIRCam…
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A Starry View

September 10, 2024

Monika Luabeya

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has infrared vision that lets us peer through the dusty veil of nearby star-forming region NGC 1333. We can see planetary mass objects, newborn stars, and brown dwarfs; some of the faintest ‘stars’ in this mosaic image are in fact newly born free-floating brown dwarfs with masses comparable to those…
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A Starry View

September 10, 2024

Monika Luabeya

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has infrared vision that lets us peer through the dusty veil of nearby star-forming region NGC 1333. We can see planetary mass objects, newborn stars, and brown dwarfs; some of the faintest ‘stars’ in this mosaic image are in fact newly born free-floating brown dwarfs with masses comparable to those…
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NASA’s Webb Reveals Distorted Galaxy Forming Cosmic Question Mark

September 4, 2024

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It’s 7 billion years ago, and the universe’s heyday of star formation is beginning to slow. What might our Milky Way galaxy have looked like at that time? Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found clues in the form of a cosmic question mark, the result of a rare alignment across light-years of…
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Webb Finds Early Galaxies Weren’t Too Big for Their Britches After All

August 26, 2024

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It got called the crisis in cosmology. But now astronomers can explain some surprising recent discoveries. When astronomers got their first glimpses of galaxies in the early universe from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, they were expecting to find galactic pipsqueaks, but instead they found what appeared to be a bevy of Olympic bodybuilders. Some…
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Category: James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

NASA’s Hubble, Webb Probe Surprisingly Smooth Disk Around Vega

‘Blood-Soaked’ Eyes: NASA’s Webb, Hubble Examine Galaxy Pair

NASA’s Webb Reveals Unusual Jets of Volatile Gas from Icy Centaur 29P

In Odd Galaxy, NASA’s Webb Finds Potential Missing Link to First Stars

NASA’s Webb Provides Another Look Into Galactic Collisions

NASA’s Webb Peers into the Extreme Outer Galaxy

A Starry View

A Starry View

NASA’s Webb Reveals Distorted Galaxy Forming Cosmic Question Mark

Webb Finds Early Galaxies Weren’t Too Big for Their Britches After All

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