NASA’s Webb Findings Support Long-Proposed Process of Planet Formation
Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just made a breakthrough discovery in...
Webb Follows Neon Signs Toward New Thinking on Planet Formation
Scientists are following neon signs in a search for clues to one planetary system’s future and the past of another – our own solar...
Webb Study Reveals Rocky Planets Can Form in Extreme Environments
An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and other...
Webb Captures Stellar Gymnastics in The Cartwheel Galaxy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing...
NASA’s Webb Catches Fiery Hourglass as New Star FormsNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the once-hidden features of the protostar within the dark cloud L1527, providing insight into the beginnings of a new star. These blazing clouds within the Taurus star-forming region are only visible in infrared light, making it an ideal target for Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). The protostar itself is hidden from view within the “neck” of this hourglass shape. An edge-on protoplanetary disk is seen as a dark line across the middle of the neck. Light from the protostar leaks above and below this disk, illuminating cavities within the surrounding gas and dust.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the once-hidden features of the protostar within the dark cloud L1527, providing insight...
Webb Detects Extremely Small Main Belt Asteroid
An asteroid roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum — between 300 to 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) in length — has been detected by an...
Webb Finds Water Vapor, But From a Rocky Planet or Its Star?
Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study a rocky exoplanet known as GJ 486 b,...
Webb Rules Out Thick Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere for Rocky Exoplanet
Infrared measurements of TRAPPIST-1 c indicate that it is probably not as Venus-like as once imagined. An international team of researchers...
NASA’s Webb Identifies Methane In an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed the exoplanet WASP-80 b as it passed in front of and behind its host star, revealing spectra...
Webb Follows Neon Signs Toward New Thinking on Planet Formation
Scientists are following neon signs in a search for clues to one planetary system’s future and...
