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Sep 17, 2024 · The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest, most powerful space telescope ever built. It will allow scientists to look at what our universe was like about 200 million years after the Big Bang . The telescope will be able to capture images of some of the first galaxies ever formed.
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Sep 16, 2024 · The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been no stranger to taking things to the extreme since its launch on Christmas day 2021, observing early galaxies billions of light-years away that...
4 days ago · James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), satellite observatory designed as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and launched by an Ariane 5 rocket in 2021. The JWST has a mirror 6.5 meters (21.3 feet) in diameter, seven times larger than that of the HST.
2 days ago · NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) image of the galaxy cluster PLCK G165.7+67.0, also known as G165, on the left shows the magnifying effect a foreground cluster can have on the distant universe beyond.
Sep 12, 2024 · Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine select star-forming areas in the Extreme Outer Galaxy in near- and mid-infrared light. Within this star-forming region, known as Digel Cloud 2S, the telescope observed young, newly formed stars and their extended jets of material.
Sep 24, 2024 · In just two years, the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered invaluable details that are reshaping researchers’ understanding of how young stars form. It has identified ices and many other complex organic molecules in the clouds where stars begin gathering mass.
Sep 4, 2024 · 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 space.
