News about Webb Space Telescope, Ring Nebula

🆕 Webb has found a plethora of carbon molecules around a young star! 🍸 Read more: esawebb.org/news/weic2416/ or 🧵👇 pic.twitter.com/YLKF3ZxzVd

In the 2024 Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes Calendar, the month of June features the Orion Bar region ⭐🏹 part of the Orion Nebula that hosts intense star formation. Ready to print .pdf here: esahubble.org/products/calendars/cal2024/ pic.twitter.com/a7P65xTs0y

Tiny star, big potential. Webb studied the planet-forming disk around a star weighing 1/10th of our Sun, finding it holds the largest number of carbon-containing molecules seen to date in such a disk: go.nasa.gov/4aQjgrk What this tells us about potential future planets ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/NboXyzLEpX

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