Cue the newly updated NASA app for smartphones, tablets and streaming platforms. This free app, which originally launched in 2011, now offers easy access to the agency’s information on everything from space missions and the latest James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images to Earth science and ...
The JWST images show turbulent waves of gas rising from the western side ofOrion B, a star-forming molecular cloud located 1,300 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Orion, where the nebula is located. A small section of the Horsehead Nebula as seen by MIRI(Image credit: ESA/We...
The package of powerful science instruments at the heart of NASA’s mammoth James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have been successfully installed into the telescopes structure. A team of two dozen engineers and technicians working with “surgical precision” inside the world’s largest clean room at...
After launch, the first groundstation to pick the S-band signal from JWST was the 10 m antenna from the Italian Space Agency in Malindi, Kenya. This groundstation commanded the telemetry rate to increase from 1 kbps to 4 kbps. After this, the spacecraft’s footprint continued moving to ...
For the first photo drop, NASA is planning to reveal the images, one by one, during a broadcasted event at 10:30 a.m. ET on July 12. You can watch this live event on NASA TV. Then, you can ask the experts your burning questions about the new pictures and science. Questions can ...