Tag Archive for 'JADES'

This image shows JADES-GS-z13-1 (the red dot at center), imaged with Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) as part of the JADES program. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / STScI / JADES Collaboration / Brant Robertson, UC Santa Cruz / Ben Johnson, CfA / Sandro Tacchella, Cambridge / Phill Cargile, CfA / J. Witstok, P. Jakobsen & A. Pagan, STScI / M. Zamani, ESA & Webb.

Webb Detects Lyman-Apha Emission from Galaxy in Early Universe

Mar 30, 2025 by News Staff

The Lyman-apha light from JADES-GS-z13-1 has taken nearly 13.47 billion years to reach us, as it dates back to just 330 million years after the Big Bang. This...

This infrared image from Webb’s NIRCam shows the record-breaking galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / B. Robertson, UC Santa Cruz / B. Johnson, CfA / S. Tacchella, Cambridge / P. Cargile, CfA.

Webb Discovers Most Distant Galaxy So Far

May 31, 2024 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have obtained the spectrum of...

An artist’s impression of a supermassive dark star. Image credit: Sci.News.

Webb May Have Spotted Supermassive Dark Stars

Jul 15, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

The first generation of stars in the Universe is yet to be observed. There are two leading theories for those objects: hydrogen burning Population III...

Distant galaxies selected and confirmed by the JWST JADES program. Image credit: Robertson et al., arXiv: 2212.04480.

Webb Confirms Discovery of Four Galaxies in Early Universe

Dec 18, 2022 by News Staff

The light from these four galaxies has taken more than 13.4 billion years to reach us, as they date back to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang,...