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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the next of NASA’s Great Observatories; following in the line of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma-ray Observatory, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope.…

The newest deep space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, will give us a deeper view into the infrared universe than the iconic Hubble.A new video from the European Space Agency (ESA) showcases how Webb will open new vistas…

You've probably heard of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, but do you know what it's actually going to do? Webb is the most powerful telescope ever built, and its assorted instruments will give us a clearer view of more stars than…

Some of the James Webb Space Telescope's first science investigations will probe the role that bright objects called quasars played in early galaxy evolution.Quasars are distant objects powered by black holes typically a billion times…

An artist’s illustration of the hot Jupiter with a wacky weather pattern.Illustration: Engine House VFXNew observations of the football-shaped exoplanet known as WASP-121b have revealed clues to its atmosphere and weather. Astronomers…

On Christmas Day, 2021, a new era began in astronomy as the James Webb Space Telescope rocketed into space. A perfect launch from an Ariane 5 rocket sent the telescope speeding away from Earth so that, after a month-long journey, it…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrup Grumman Now begins the process of aligning all 18 mirror segments so that they work together as one. Since the arrival of <span…

The past month has been an exciting time for the James Webb Space Telescope! After launching on Christmas Day, the telescope spent the next few weeks deploying its mirrors, checking the individual segments, and then maneuvering to L2,…

The James Webb Space Telescope will be capturing pictures of the very first stars in the universe and…

The James Webb Space Telescope is able to peer closely at exoplanets one at a time and examine their atmospheres with unprecedented accuracy. But perhaps the most exciting planetary targets will be a star system strangely analogous to…