News about James Webb Space Telescope

🛎️ It's quiz time! The extreme starburst galaxy M82 has been probed by Webb 🌟 revealing the galaxy’s intricate substructure. pic.twitter.com/9O0vevm86J

What goes into finding a potentially habitable planet? Learn how Webb’s sensitive vision may help us detect and characterize the atmospheres of some of the most promising candidates orbiting cool stars — and lay the groundwork for future missions: go.nasa.gov/4bOSb9g pic.twitter.com/vNGE5D7GlC

Searched for our spark and we found it 😤 Why are Webb's stars so sparkly? Those diffraction spikes are produced as light bends around a telescope's sharp edges. Webb’s unique pattern is due to its hexagonal primary mirror & secondary mirror struts: webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/01G529MX46J7AFK61GAMSHKSSN pic.twitter.com/jn6a4N0ZDx

A nursery of stars, caught in NASA's Webb 🕸️ Nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula, this star-forming region was observed by our @NASAWebb telescope in 2022. Learn more about what makes this nebula special: go.nasa.gov/3KqA0ur pic.twitter.com/6GJ42t8vbG