James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Astrophysics
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Planetary Nebulae
Science & Research
The Universe
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed into the Helix Nebula to give an up-close view of the possible eventual fate of our own Sun and planetary system. In Webb’s high-resolution look, the structure of the gas being shed off by a dying star comes into full focus. The image reveals how stars recycle their […]
Posted January 20, 2026
Active Galaxies
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Quasars
Science & Research
The Universe
The Circinus Galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues to influence its evolution.
Posted January 13, 2026
Ames Research Center
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Pioneers
CubeSats
Exoplanet Science
Exoplanet Transits
Exoplanets
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Goddard Space Flight Center
Infrared Light
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Kepler / K2
SmallSats Program
Stars
Studying Exoplanets
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
The Universe
Visible / Optical Light
Editor’s Note, Jan. 11, 2026: NASA’s Pandora and the NASA-sponsored BlackCAT and SPARCS missions lifted off at 8:44 a.m. EST (5:44 a.m. PST) Sunday, Jan. 11. A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, and their stars. Along […]
Posted January 9, 2026
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
The Universe
After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri says they have identified a sample of galaxies that have a previously unseen combination of features.
Posted January 6, 2026
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Irregular Galaxies
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Origin & Evolution of the Universe
Science & Research
The Universe
Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one of the most chemically primitive galaxies near the Milky Way. The finding of metallic iron dust and silicon carbide (SiC) produced by aging stars, along with tiny clumps of carbon-based molecules, shows that even […]
Posted January 6, 2026
Galaxies
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured two nearby dwarf galaxies interacting with each other in this image released on Dec. 2, 2025. Dwarf galaxies can give us insights into galaxies in the early universe, which were thought to have less mass than galaxies like the Milky Way, and also contain a lot of gas, relatively […]
Posted December 22, 2025
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured glowing cosmic dust heated by very young massive stars in unprecedented detail in this image of the Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) molecular cloud released on Sept. 24, 2025. Sgr B2 is the most massive, and active star-forming region in our galaxy, located only a […]
Posted December 1, 2025
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Planetary Nebulae
Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured never-before-seen details of the Red Spider Nebula, a planetary nebula, in this image released on Oct. 26, 2025. NIRCam is Webb’s primary near-infrared imager, providing high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy for a wide variety of investigations.
Posted November 25, 2025
Comets
Heliophysics
Hubble Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Lucy
Mars
Mars 2020
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
Missions
Perseverance (Rover)
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
Planets
Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)
Psyche Mission
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory)
STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory)
The Solar System
The Sun
This article was updated to include the full range of dates from the SOHO image. Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA is in the midst of an unprecedented solar system-wide observation campaign, turning its spacecraft and space telescopes to follow comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system. Twelve […]
Posted November 19, 2025
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Nebulae
Stars
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding beyond the next in precisely the same pattern. (The fourth is almost transparent, at the edges of Webb’s image.) Observations taken prior to Webb only detected one shell, […]
Posted November 19, 2025
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