No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope
Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...
From concept to cosmos: Webb engineers on the telescope that changed everything
Interview The team behind the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just scored the Simon Ramo Medal, given by the Institute of ...
Webb Telescope Captures Neptune’s Long-Hidden Auroras in Stunning Detail
Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...
James Webb telescope reveals oxygen in galaxy from 13.4 billion years ago
Light from JADES-GS-z14-0 has taken 13.4 billion years to reach Earth, revealing a chemically mature galaxy when the universe ...
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 ...
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Webb telescope spots galaxy at pivotal moment in the early universe
WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) - Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified ... of the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory. "But as the first stars and galaxies ...
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Webb telescope captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system
The James Webb Space Telescope ... of the European Southern Observatory; Marshall D. Perrin, Julien H. Girard, Roeland P. van der Marel, Jeff A. Valenti, Joshua D. Lothringer, Kielan K. W. Hoch, and ...
The most distant galaxy ever discovered holds a surprising secret
Scientists have made a stunning discovery of oxygen in the most distant galaxy known, raising questions about how galaxies ...
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NASA launches SPHEREx space telescope for $488 million — it will show what was hidden from Webb and Hubble’s «eyes»
The SPHEREx Space Observatory will offer additional «panoramic» views to the infrared images of the James Webb Space Telescope ... but not to powerful space telescopes like the Webb Space Telescope ...
Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most ancient known galaxy
Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient ...
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New JPL space mission seeks to unravel the mystery of cosmic ‘inflation’
“It’s zooming out to map the cosmos and see the largest structures and the biggest picture, unlike large telescopes like [the James Webb Space telescope] that will zoom in and take very ...
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NASA launches newest space telescope to seek life’s key ingredients
The observatory ... the James Webb Space Telescope. While Webb is a targeted telescope, meaning it observes a small area but in greater detail, SPHEREx is a survey telescope that observes large ...