Before its launch last year, the James Webb space telescope was avidly awaited. However, now that the most powerful and expensive telescope ever built is operational, the JWST is threatening to turn astronomy on its head with a single discovery. The latest JWST images have revealed that the ...
Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the ‘inside-out’ growth of a galaxy in the early universe, only 700 million years after the Big Bang. This galaxy is one hundred times smaller than the Milky Way, but is... ...
To mark the occasion, NASA expert Taylor Hutchison spoke to Space.com about the impact the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)has had on science in its first 12 months. The astrophysicist also explained what could be forthcoming from the JWST during its second year of operations. ...
rather than question the underlying theory – the theory of Big Bang cosmology – they are denying galaxies their infancy. Given the evidence of galaxies almost as old as the universe itself, proponents of the Big Bang assume that early galaxies formed faster than initially theorised...
December 25 will bring many reasons to celebrate, including the two-year anniversary of the launching of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful observatory ever put into space. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a rundown of the top 9 discoveries already made by this groundbre...
Years behind schedule and billions over budget, the James Webb Space Telescope — 100 times more powerful than the iconicHubble— is finally poised for launch on a make-or-break mission to peer all the way back to nearly the Big Bang that created the cosmos. ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered star clusters in the "Cosmic Gems" arc that existed just 460 million years after the Big Bang. This marks the first discovery of star clusters in an infant galaxy, seen as it was when the 13.8 billion-year-old ...
近月由年轻剑桥天体物理教授Nikku Madhusudhan带领的一个团队,运用美国的JWST(James Webb Space Telescope),细心观察K2-18b,一个与地球相隔124光年的exoplanet(太阳系外星球),从光谱中发现大量Methane、Carbon Dioxide,已有液态水海洋,和充满氢气大气层的有力证据,今次最重要的新发现,是找到Diamethyl Sulphide(DMS),是...
and abstract theory. Technologies capable of practically pursuing these quests have been realized only in the past few decades. TheJames Webb Space Telescope, the European Extremely Large Telescope, the Giant Magellan Telescope, the Primeval Structure Telescope, and many upcoming observatories will be ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), fondly referred to as a ‘First Light Machine,’ is designed to look across the farthest reaches of the cosmos to the beginning of time itself, to observe the first stars and galaxies that coalesced from the primordial gas of the Big Bang. JWST is ...