James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Galaxies
Hubble Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently observed edge-on starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82), nicknamed the Cigar Galaxy. Webb’s new view of M82, added to archival data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, gives us a more complete picture of this starburst galaxy. Because Webb can see infrared light, it is able to peer through clouds of […]
Posted June 25, 2026
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Origin & Evolution of the Universe
The Universe
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found something they never expected — ultraviolet light from a galaxy that existed just 1.4 billion years after the big bang.
Posted June 23, 2026
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
The Universe
Located 12 million light-years away and undergoing rapid star formation, edge-on spiral galaxy Messier 82 (M82) is a scientifically unique sight to behold, and now NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed previously unseen details.
Posted June 23, 2026
Astrophysics
Comets
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
Small Bodies of the Solar System
The Solar System
The Universe
As interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS began moving away from the Sun in December 2025, astronomers took the opportunity to turn NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope in its direction and capture detailed measurements of its chemical components. The comet was freshly warmed from its closest pass by the Sun, and its ancient ice had been converted […]
Posted June 22, 2026
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Stars
This image, captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and released on June 5, 2026, shows just a small portion of one of the Orion Molecular Clouds, a long and massive filament of cold gas and dust beyond the Orion Nebula. Every stage of star formation — from the youngest stellar embryos to protoplanetary discs […]
Posted June 18, 2026
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Exoplanets
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
The Universe
That’s the latest from researchers analyzing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of HD 80606 b, an exoplanet four times the mass of Jupiter with an extremely elliptical orbit that sweeps close by its Sun-like star.
Posted June 17, 2026
Astrophysics
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
Star Clusters
Stars
The Milky Way
Researchers using two of humanity’s most powerful observatories — NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes — have definitively shown that Terzan 5 is not a globular star cluster as it was once classified, offering new insight into how galaxies like our own form and evolve over time. A globular star cluster typically has only […]
Posted June 16, 2026
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Gravitational Lensing
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
The Universe
Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don’t know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: Large stars within an existing galaxy consume their fuel and collapse to form black holes, which can gobble up surrounding material and merge over time to form more massive entities. But it’s hard […]
Posted May 27, 2026
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Spiral Galaxies
Star Clusters
This near-infrared image released on May 6, 2026, shows a section of one of the spiral arms of Messier 51 (M51). M51 is one of four nearby galaxies observed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in a study of nearly 9,000 star clusters. Data from the study shows that more massive star clusters emerge more […]
Posted May 22, 2026
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Spiral Galaxies
The heart of galaxy M77 shines brightly in this May 7, 2026, image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The intense glow is due to gas being pulled by the strong gravity of the central black hole into a tight and rapid orbit around it. The motion of the gas causes it to heat up, […]
Posted May 18, 2026
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