Early in 2023, astronomers using theJames Webb Space Telescopeannounced they had discovered a set of ‘Universe-breaking’ galaxies could upend our ideas about how galaxies are born. JWST is able to observe galaxies that are so distant, we’re seeing them as they were just 500–700 million ...
Hubble's eponymous space telescope captured this image of Supernova 1994D in the lenticular spiral galaxy NGC 4526.Credit: NASA/ESA, The Hubble Key Project Team, The High-Z Supernova Search Team Today, it's known that the long-term fate of a star depends on whether its mass is above or...
The Southern Ring Nebula; taken by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) [left] and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) [right] aboard the JWST. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI) To capture the spectacular nature of nebulae, telescopes — such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the ...
The reason for this is linked toone of the biggest conundrumsin gender equality: how can it be that girls consistently outperform boys in schools and yet, by the time they reach adulthood and enter into the professional arena, they earn less, occupy fewer leadership roles and generally have ...
In June, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured a breathtaking image of the Serpens Nebula, a star-forming region located 1,300 light years from Earth. The telescope's imaging capabilities helped scientists gain a window into something many have long desired to image directly for th...
Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope as it images some of the most distant and faint early galaxies.
One enormous question is whether the potentially rocky planets that JWST can observe will have atmospheres at all. The only stars whose habitable-zone planets are within the telescope’s reach are red dwarfs, like TRAPPIST-1. These stars have a nasty habit of spewing harsh radiation that many ...
Why is fascism so hard to define? Fascism always takes on the individual characteristics of the country it is in, leading to very different regimes. For instance, Paxton wrote in his essay "The Five Stages of Fascism" published in 1998 in the Journal of Modern History that, "religion … ...
While the James Webb Space Telescope ("JWST" to those in the know) is heralded as the "successor" to NASA's storiedHubble Space Telescope, it kind of isn't. The Hubble is primarily an optical telescope, capturing wavelengths of light similar to the range that the human eye does, and ex...
is between Earth and the sun. The second Lagrange point, L2, is on the opposite side of Earth from the sun. Because the sun is partially blocked by Earth, L2 provides a dark, unhindered vantage point for space telescopes such as theJames Webb Space Telescope(JWST) to view the universe,...