The James Webb Space Telescope

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  James Webb Telescope Discovers Most Distant Galaxy From Just 300 Million Years After the Big Bang

  The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the most distant galaxy ever observed, JADES-GS-z14-0, seen as it existed just 300 million years after the Big Bang. Its unexpected brightness and chemical complexity suggest rapid early star formation, challenging long-standing theories about how the first galaxies evolved in the early universe.

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  NASA's James Webb Telescope Reveals Helix Nebula In Stunning Detail, Showing How Dying Stars Seed Future Planets

  Previous Spitzer studies have indicated the formation of complex molecules in the Helix Nebula.

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  JWST Uncovers the Origins of the Universe’s First Supermassive Black Holes

  James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal that the earliest supermassive black holes formed from massive gas clouds collapsing directly into heavy seeds. This process bypassed normal star formation, allowing black holes to reach millions of solar masses within just 200–500 million years after the Big Bang, solving a long-standing cosmic myst...

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  James Webb Space Telescope Spots Most Distant Galaxy That Existed 280 Million Years After Big Bang

  MoM-z14's light has travelled over 13.5 billion years to reach Earth, the scientists have revealed.

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  James Webb Helps Astronomers Chart the Universe’s Hidden Dark Matter

  Astronomers have created the sharpest map yet of dark matter using deep observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. By analysing the gravitational distortion of hundreds of thousands of distant galaxies, the team traced invisible dark matter across a large region of the sky. The results confirm that dark matter forms the scaffolding arou...

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  James Webb Captures Stunning Infrared Image of the Helix Nebula Eye of God

  The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed infrared image of the Helix Nebula, also known as the “Eye of God.” The glowing ring of gas around a white dwarf star reveals filaments and knots formed as stellar winds collide with older material, offering insight into the fate of Sun-like stars.

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  James Webb Watches a Young Star Bake Crystals for Future Planets

  Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have observed a young star in the Serpens Nebula forging crystalline silicates during powerful outbursts. The findings explain how heat-formed minerals can end up in cold cometary regions and planet-forming disks, shedding light on early stages of planet formation.

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  NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Might Have Spotted Hidden Supermassive Black Holes

  Mysterious “little red dots” spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope may not be tiny galaxies after all. A new study suggests they are supermassive black holes wrapped in dense gas and dust, perfectly disguised in the early universe and shining intensely in infrared light.

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  James Webb Space Telescope Finds What Killed Pablo's Galaxy: "Death By A Thousand Cuts"

  The findings revealed that ALMA observations detected no carbon monoxide, indicating a severe lack of cold, star-forming gas.

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  A Massive Black Hole Starved Pablo’s Galaxy, Ending Its Star Formation

  Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA have uncovered how a massive black hole shut down star formation in Pablo’s Galaxy. Powerful winds expelled gas at hundreds of kilometres per second, leaving almost no cold fuel behind. The findings suggest many early galaxies did not die explosively, but were slowly starved by their centr...