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Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.
ESA/Hubble In a first for astronomers surveying the depths of space, carbon dioxide has been detected on an exoplanet – that is, a planet lying outside our solar system. Thanks to the coronagraph ...
The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has pointed its infrared optics at the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' NGC 1514, a planetary nebula ...
Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...
Pillars of Creation: A breathtaking image resembling desert spires, filled with translucent gas and dust, constantly shifting, captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Deep Universe ...
Scientists observed and captured the first clear evidence of auroras on Neptune using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... of detail and clarity of the images was surprising." ...
Thanks to the Webb telescope, scientists are now studying the nebula in greater detail, leading to a better understanding of the interstellar cloud. On Monday, NASA released stunning images of the ...
The potential discovery of life elsewhere is down to the unprecedented sensitivity of Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope.