NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has come through yet again with an unprecedented image from our Solar System, this time of a unique pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep. A Wolf-Rayet is a massive, ...

Remarkable new images from the James Webb Space Telescope have captured the first-ever view of four dust spirals surrounding the Wolf-Rayet stars in the Apep system. “Looking at Webb’s new ...

A team of astronomers has discovered a supermassive black hole that is 100 million times the mass of the sun. This impressive discovery was found using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) ...

Webb's mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep for the first time (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Science: Yinuo Han (Caltech), Ryan White ...

"This is a one-of-a-kind system with an incredibly rare orbital period." A nested series of dusty spirals is captured swirling around a mighty triple star system containing two of the rarest stars in ...

The binary system Apep has a stack of four nested dust shells around two Wolf-Rayet stars. A third star creates a wedge-shaped gap in the pattern. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Yinuo Han / Ryan White / ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened a new chapter in planetary science, giving astronomers the ability to observe JWST exoplanets with a level of detail never before possible. Launched as ...

Astronomers have spotted auroras on a planet-sized object called SIMP 0136, which is currently roaming around our Milky Way galaxy without a star. The auroral activity seems to be warming the objects ...

Take a tour of the amazing Ring Nebula image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/Institute for Earth and Space Exploration/JWST Ring Nebula Imaging Project Breaking Down ...

When NASA launched its $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope in 2021, scientists hailed the mission as the greatest achievement of its kind in over three decades. Soon, however, scientists noticed a ...

Scientists keep returning to one star: Proxima Centauri. It’s the nearest neighbor to our Sun, just over four light-years away, and already home to a rocky planet. That planet, Proxima b, sits close ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) Near Infrared Spectrograph captured emissions of heat, sulfur dioxide, and sulfur from the Jovian moon Io (seen here from left to right, listed with their ...