The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared space telescope that has recently started its science program which will enable breakthroughs in astrophysics and planetary science.

A key feature of Webb's design is ... the JWST sits in constant bright sunshine. This is healthy for the equipment in the spacecraft bus, but bad news for the optical instruments and science ...

Before JWST, optical observations of young stars were ... Years overdue and billions of dollars over-budget, its revolutionary design has nevertheless blazed a new trail for space telescopes.

"In this paper, we present the discovery, in the Abell 2744 cluster field, of a two-armed, grand-design spiral galaxy, with a redshift of z ∼4, when the universe was only ∼1.5 billion years old.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a new grand-design spiral galaxy. It has been named Zhúlóng, after a giant ...

Using JWST, astronomers scoped out AzTECC71 at a number of different wavelengths. In some of the images the galaxy is clearly visible (we recognize the weirdness of using that word for invisible ...

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang has scientists stumped. When you purchase ...

The infrared Spitzer Space Telescope (a predecessor of JWST) and the optical Hubble Space Telescope teamed to make this portrait of the Sombrero Galaxy (M104). Spitzer’s infrared data bring out ...

Researchers from the Universities of Michigan and Montreal analyzed late 2023 data sent from the high-powered JWST optical. They flagged potential oceans and air sources on the exoplanet dubbed ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a stellar new image of the Whirlpool Galaxy (aka M51 or NGC 5194), a grand-design spiral galaxy about 27 million light-years away from Earth.