James Webb Space Telescope

Beyond what was thought Possible: New data from Webb unearths a mysterious early galaxy

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Our understanding of how galaxies form and the nature of dark matter could be upside down thanks to observations of a stellar population bigger than the Milky Way from more than 11 billion- years ago that should not exist. A study published today in Nature using new data from the James Webb Space Telescope discovers […]

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NASA’s Webb’s Holiday images of Uranus, its rings, and moons

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NASA’s Webb captured a marvelous image of Uranus showing its inner and outer dim rings(including the extremely diffuse dim ring the Zeta Ring) and many of its moons during December 2023. This image is a two-colored version that shows atmospheric details of the planets such as a seasonal north polar cap and storms. This new

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James Webb Space Telescope found Hydrogen-Alpha Emission in the era of reionization

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A team of astronomers with the leader named Pierluigi Rinaldi discovers Hydrogen- Alpha Emissions during the era of Reionization. The detection of H-alpha emissions was possible thanks to the farthest images taken by the Mid-Infrared (MIRI) Instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. The study has been accepted in the Astrophysical Journal and is currently

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James Webb find new surprises IN a galaxy’s organic biosignatures near Black Holes

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Research by Oxford University is the first of its kind to study tiny dust molecules in the central active regions of active galaxies by the use of early observations captured by NASA’s Webb. The research is the first U.K.-led paper to use spectroscopic data from JWST’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) and addresses one of the biggest

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NASA’s Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument is prepared to perform science

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The James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) has concluded its post-launch preparations and is now prepared to do science. The last MIRI mode to be approved was its coronographic imaging capability, which uses two different designs of masks to block off light from a star to make observations of the star’s orbiting planets. These

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NASA’s Webb Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph Instrument prepared to see the universe using over 2000 different infrared colors

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One of NASA’s Webb’s four main scientific instruments, specifically the Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph instrument (NIRISS) is now ready to perform science. According to NASA, the last mode of the NIRISS to be completed before the instrument was confirmed ready to start its scientific operations was the Single Object Slitless Spectroscopy (SOSS) capability. The

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James Webb Space Telescope will help uncover more of the early universe

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Before the James Webb Space Telescope, space telescopes have looked back at lights from galaxies that reached a period of no earlier than 400 million years after the big bang. One question that remains unsolved and important even today is what were the first galaxies like when the universe was experiencing a time phase known

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NASA’s Webb’s Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy will reveal Elements and Molecules

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This week NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team continues to operate through Webb’s 17 science instrument modes. Webb team checked off numbers 5 ( NIRCam grism time series) and 4(imaging time series), both of which will be used to study exoplanets and other time-variable sources. Number 12 which is the NIRISS aperture masking infertometry mode,

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small space rocks CLASH into James Webb Space TELESCOPE BUT IT’S still fully operational

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Between May 23 and 25, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope encountered an impact on one of its primary mirror segments. after examining the impact, the Webb team reported that the telescope is still operating at a level that exceeds all mission expectations despite the marginal impact. According to NASA, NASA’s Webb will continue to encounter

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