HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

It can seem like JWST arrived out of nowhere, but the telescope has been the collective effort of tens of thousands of scientists over decades. Here are some of this year’s best new images.

Giant quasar and little red dots. A NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRCam picture of the luminous quasar J1148+5251, an extremely rare active supermassive black hole of 10 billion ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Most of the NASA images are the result of inputs received from high-definition telescopes and other devices like the James Webb Telescope ... core known as a quasar. The galactic core got its ...

JWST took three separate exposures of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, showing how the constituent gas and dust changed over time. Note, the bottom two images are rotated slightly compared to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... these lights were initially thought to be mirror images of a single quasar, duplicated by a process called gravitational lensing. This phenomenon bends ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recorded breath-taking new images of the iconic Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57. The images, released today by an international team of astronomers ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured a stunning image of a distant quasar, RX J1131-1231, through gravitational lensing. This phenomenon, caused by a nearby elliptical galaxy ...