Using data from the Keck Cosmic Web Imager, an animation has been created that "reveals a 3-D slice through a network of hydrogen gas filaments that crisscross the spaces between galaxies ...

If you’ve seen the images coming out of the James Webb Space Telescope, you probably have some sense of why you should care about them: they are, very simply, stunning. There are sparkly stars ...

Imagine zipping around the Carina nebula. Featured among the new images from the James Webb Space Telescope, the plume-y clouds act as a “stellar nursery” where stars are formed.. You’d see ...

On July 12th, NASA will reveal the first full-color images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s most powerful space observatory. Those pictures are the culmination of six months ...

Reflecting telescopes, like NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, produce “diffraction spikes” when they are used to image bright objects like stars. JWST’s unique design means that it has ...

Last year, the James Webb Space Telescope fortuitously spotted the unmistakable shape of a question mark across the sky. The uncanny feature was captured lurking at the bottom of an image of a ...

NASA released this image on the first anniversary of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first released images. This shows the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth.

An international team of scientists recently released the largest near-infrared image ever taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, enabling astronomers to map the star-forming regions of the universe ...