Webb reveals that's no star over there. It's an entire freaking galaxy.
Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a protruding central bulge, shown in blue, where older stars reside. The bulge also seems to have side lobes, suggesting that this could be a barred spiral galaxy like the Milky Way.
A 'cosmic coincidence' leads to one of the most amazing images ever captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...
A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...
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'I was astonished': Ancient galaxy discovered by James Webb telescope contains the oldest oxygen scientists have ever seenScientists have made the record-breaking detection of oxygen in an ancient galaxy that existed just 300 million years after ...
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