A nearby galaxy is ablaze with new stars in a dazzling new image from the James Webb Space Telescope. Located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canis Major, this barred spiral ...

It actually was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a peculiar region of ...

What are you, SIMP 0136? Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way galaxy. It's rapidly spinning, and at some 13 ...

One such galaxy is an irregular dwarf galaxy called ... Although first discovered in 2013, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed that Leo P is unexpectedly forming ...

In fact, scientists didn't really expect that stars would even be able to still form at all in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, an image of which the James Webb Telescope recently captured in ...

The black hole at the heart of our galaxy is a real party animal ... their environments and help galaxies evolve. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists discovered that the ...

Aimed at the nearby star PDS 70, the James Webb Space Telescope is watching newborn planets take shape before our eyes in uprecedented detail. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

Astronomers discovered the galaxy during Webb’s First Deep Field, which was released as part of Webb’s first images in July of 2022. One of the first images that James Webb ever captured.

Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to take the longest look yet at our galaxy's supermassive black hole — and it's frothing with unusual activity.