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New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.
The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...
The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of ...
Celebrating one year of images from the James Webb Space Telescope 05:47. A stellar nursery filled with hundreds of blistering-hot and massive newborn stars is captured in two new images by the ...
Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...
The star-studded imagery was released Monday by an international consortium of scientists. NASA/ESA/CSA/AFP via Getty Image. One image from the Webb telescope shows a solar system in the making ...
What causes the diffraction spikes in images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)—and how to tell them apart from images from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
Reflecting telescopes, like NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, produce “diffraction spikes” when they are used to image bright objects like stars. JWST’s unique design means that it has ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light.
NASA' s Hubble Space Telescope provides breathtaking views of galaxies like NGC 5668 and NGC 5033, illustrating rapid star formation and the intricate processes involved in star development.
The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, still takes images of spiky stars. But most recently, the first full-color image from the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest optical telescope in ...