The James Webb Space Telescope adds to the confusing drama of Hubble’s tension
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Forbidden black holes and ancient stars are hidden in these ‘little red dots’ (image)
Forget the “little green men” – it’s the “little red dots” in the infant universe that caught the eye of the James Webb Space Telescope …
James Webb Space Telescope spies strange shapes above Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (image)
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers discovered never-before-seen structures and activity in Jupiter’s atmosphere above the Great Red Spot. These odd features appear …
James Webb Space Telescope reveals ‘Cosmic Gems’ in the very early universe (video)
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers discovered star clusters in the “Cosmic Gems” arc that existed just 460 million years after the Big …
A mysterious planet the size of Jupiter that shouldn’t exist is as puffy as a marshmallow and astronomers finally think they know why
Exoplanet WASP 107b is a gas giant that is almost the size of Jupiter, but much less massive. Based on this discrepancy, astronomers did not …
James Webb Space Telescope discovers the 2 earliest galaxies ever seen (image)
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found not one but two of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen, continuing to break the …
James Webb Space Telescope sees Orion Nebula in stunning new light (images)
The Orion Nebula may be a familiar and well-studied celestial object, but new images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) show this star-shaped cloud …
James Webb Space Telescope reaches the center of a galaxy with a smoking constellation (images)
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has zoomed into the heart of the Cigar Galaxy, a region of space ablaze with an explosive bout of …
Speck of light spotted by Hubble is really an ancient galaxy, reveals James Webb Space Telescope
What was little more than a speck of light for the Hubble Space Telescope has been revealed as one of the oldest galaxies ever discovered …
James Webb Space Telescope takes a close look at 19 complex galaxy structures (images)
Recently released James Webb Space Telescope images of 19 distant galaxies shed new, dynamic and vibrant light on these beautiful realms. The trove of cosmic …