Several images of Jupiter and its moons as well as images and spectra of solar system asteroids from Webb’s commissioning period are now available on...
This enormous mosaic of Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of galaxies in the constellation of Pegasus, is the largest image captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA...
Two cameras aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured new images of the Southern Ring Nebula, a planetary nebula approximately 2,500...
This image, captured in infrared light by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, reveals for previously invisible areas of star formation in NGC...
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding...
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope mission today released its first full-color scientific images and spectroscopic data.
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Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, the new image shows the massive galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327.
This Webb image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327....
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope is aligned across all four of its science instruments, as seen in a previous engineering image. The Webb team...
After full review, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has been confirmed to be capable of capturing well-focused images with each of its four...
Following the completion of mirror alignment steps, the Webb team expects that the telescope’s optical performance will be able to meet or exceed its...
Scientists and engineers on the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope team have successfully worked through the second and third out of seven total phases...
Each dot visible in this image mosaic from the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope is the same...
On February 3, 2022, astronomers saw the first photons of starlight that traveled through the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and were detected...
On January 24, 2021, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope fired its thrusters for 297 seconds to complete the final post launch course correction...
On January 7 and 8, 2021, two wings of 6.4-m (21-foot) gold-coated primary mirror of the NASA/ESA/CA James Webb Space Telescope were deployed and latched...
The Webb team has successfully completed tensioning for the five layers of the observatory’s kite-shaped sunshield.
An artist’s impression of the James...
The James Webb Space Telescope, an international partnership between NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), launched at 7:20 a.m. EST (13:20 CET)...
