News about Webb Space Telescope

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

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

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