The James Webb Space Telescope is truly incredible. Since the start of the year, it’s already made countless discoveries, snapped incredible images, and unearthed new knowledge about space. Just this week it started peering at the fascinating TRAPPIST planets and also spotted an unusual world with terrifying clouds. Here are its 10 most recent discoveries. Spoiler: They're sure to blow you away.
Would any of these worlds be suitable for life? Scientists have waited on pins and needles for more details about the TRAPPIST-1 solar system, a family of seven Earth-size planets discovered not too far away that could support life. Now the James Webb Space Telescope, the mighty observatory in the …
It's a perpetual, blistering sandstorm. A bad day at the beach is better than a good day at the office, but that saying wouldn't hold up in a recently studied world 40 light-years from Earth, where every day might be a gusty beach purgatory. On exoplanet VHS 1256 b, the clouds swirl with sizzling, …
The space observatory snapped a brief, colorful teaser to an exploding supernova. These dust clouds — intense plumes of citron, blush, and magenta — are not signs of blooming as they tend to be on Earth but the final sputters of a dying star in this new deep space image captured by the James Webb …
And scientists have only seen four percent of the data so far. A project to map the earliest structures of the universe has found 15,000 more galaxies in its first snapshot than captured in an entire deep field survey conducted 20 years ago. The James Webb Space Telescope, the new preeminent …
It's an optical illusion. Look closely at this image, and you might think you're seeing triple. A new James Webb Space Telescope photo showcases three copies of the same galaxy cluster hosting a supernova, the brightest and most violent type of space explosion known. The cosmic triplets aren't …
The universe holds secrets. Scientists expected the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal unknowns in the deepest realms of space. But they certainly didn't anticipate this. While scanning a region of the cosmos near the Big Dipper, a group of astronomers identified six faint objects as they appeared …
Magnificent galactic megacluster. There are few things as astonishing as a deep-field view of the universe. The powerful James Webb Space Telescope just snapped an unprecedented deep field view, which is an image comprising hours-long exposures of a section of the cosmos. It allows astronomers — and …
A small object could have huge implications for solar system research. Sometimes, mistakes in telescope observations can lead to accidental discoveries. That's what happened recently when scientists tried to use the new James Webb Space Telescope — an observatory run by NASA, the European Space …
A feast for your eyes. The James Webb Space Telescope is profoundly powerful. A newly-released galactic image from the European Space Agency shows a deep view of the cosmos that other telescopes can't see. The universe's most ancient galaxies are so far away that their light has literally stretched …
What else is out there? Scientists have spotted a strange new world. It's almost exactly the size of Earth. It's rocky. It's relatively close (41 light-years away). And, for the first time, astronomers used the most powerful space telescope ever built — the James Webb Space Telescope — to find this …
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