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New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope could dramatically change our understanding of galaxy formation and dark matter by revealing a galaxy larger than the Milky Way that existed more than 11 billion years ago. The study, published in the journal Nature, showed that this ancient massive galaxy contains stars that formed 1.5 billion […]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a unique discovery by capturing two exoplanets orbiting white dwarfs, which are the last stage of a star’s existence. The discovered exoplanets resemble the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn in their characteristics and allow us to speculate on what the solar system might look like after the […]
Scientists have discovered the oldest and most distant supermassive black hole to date. The James Webb Space Telescope helped them with this, Space writes. What is known A supermassive black hole lies in the center of the CEERS 1019 galaxy. It appeared only 570 million years after the Big Bang. The difficulty in detecting the […]
James Webb has pulled off a spectacular trick. The space telescope took a photo in which the same galaxy is depicted three times in different places. What is known At first glance, it may seem that James Webb has done something magical, but this happens. This happens when light from an object travels along several […]
As planned, the James Webb Telescope team has demonstrated the first full color images obtained with this new space observatory. The telescope made the deepest and most accurate infrared image of the distant universe to date. This is a detailed image of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 (in the cap to this article). The James […]
Experts from the James Webb Mission Support Team (JWST) reported the successful cooling to operating temperature of the telescope’s most sensitive instrument, the MIRI Medium Infrared Camera. This means that the observatory is one step closer to the beginning of its scientific program. How to see the light of the first stars Why do you […]
NASA said that the initial focusing stage of the main mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully completed. Recently, the image of the target star from all 18 segments was reduced to one, and now focusing has been performed. Interestingly, when the specialists finished focusing the mirror, they were surprised by the […]
New images from the James Webb Space Telescope show that the space observatory has reached another important stage of preparation for full-fledged work. All 18 mirrors are now aligned enough to act as one powerful mirror. The NASA space agency has published a “selfie” of the James Webb Space Telescope, as well as an updated […]