The cutting-edge observatory is charged with seeing some of the earliest visible light, and the recent image achieves a new ...
Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...
"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...
A phenomenon called gravitational lensing turned a galaxy into a "hall of mirrors of cosmic proportions," allowing for the ...
Telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope can observe some incredibly distant galaxies, stretching all the ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...
Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the ...
Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except ...
Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...
Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.
Taking advantage of a cosmic 'double lens,' astronomers resolved more than 40 individual stars in a galaxy so far away its light dates back to when the universe was only half its present age.