It’s about to be a very spooky Halloween in space. Scientists say they have found stars brewing inside a Halloween-like cosmic cauldron. Using the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers captured a turbulent star-forming region known as N159. The region is located about 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the satellite galaxies orbiting our Milky … Read more
They can’t all be stars. Researchers using the James Webb Telescope have discovered six distant “rogue” worlds that may have peculiar origins. What’s uncommon is that none of the planet-sized bodies, all between five and 15 times Jupiter’s mass, orbit a star, as the Earth does to the sun. New images from the James Webb … Read more
Since becoming operational last year, the James Webb Space Telescope has made groundbreaking observations involving some of the universe’s earliest galaxies. One might call them galactic infants. But Webb has obtained even better data on galaxies a bit further along in development. Astronomers call these the galactic “teenagers.” And, as new research shows, they resemble human teenagers in … Read more
Let the sunshine in. Stunning new space images captured by the new Euclid telescope are revealing secrets of the “dark universe,” a mystery-filled combination of dark matter and dark energy believed to make up 95% of the cosmos. The one-of-a-kind photos have been released by the European Space Agency, which launched the groundbreaking tech into … Read more
A star is born — literally. An incredible image from the James Webb Space Telescope is providing new clues about how stars come into existence. The awe-inspiring snap shows protostar HH 212, located about 1,300 light-years from Earth. HH 212 was first discovered back in 1993, near the Belt of Orion, and astronomers have spent the … Read more
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope might have made what one expert is hailing as the “discovery of the century” — about 744 trillion miles from Earth. A team of international astronomers have “found potential evidence of life in the atmosphere of another world,” Robert Zubrin, an American aerospace engineer and advocate for human exploration of … Read more
A Park Slope man is on a mission to show New Yorkers the heavens — and not even the city’s universally nightmarish traffic can get in his way. Joe Delfausse, 82, went viral on Tuesday after a large group of people gathered in the middle of Ninth Avenue in Brooklyn to peer into his telescope … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a giant cosmic question mark in space that has baffled scientists. The team operating the telescope at the European Space Agency released an image on Wednesday that offered the most detailed look yet at two actively forming young stars located some 1470 light-years from Earth in the Vela … Read more
It’s the first anniversary of cosmic observations and photographs from the James Webb Space Telescope, and NASA is celebrating by releasing one of its best shots yet. A new image shows a colorful close-up of a dozen of stars at the moment of birth. “On its first anniversary, the James Webb Space Telescope has already … Read more