The viral photograph was a zoomed-in, cropped version of an image taken by a special camera on NASA's Webb Space Telescope. That image was a composite of multiple exposures. The viral photograph was ...

Late last month NASA and ESA released a swirling infrared vista capturing an evolutionary snapshot of the formation of two nascent stars, known collectively as Herbig-Haro 46/47. As reported by Space ...

The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a stunning new image of what scientists call a pair of actively forming stars. But eagle-eyed viewers were quick to seize on an even tinier — and to ...

Webb is casting the universe in a new light, but the space telescope's discovery of a cosmological question mark has us scratching our heads. Reading time 2 minutes The James Webb Space Telescope ...

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The young stars are buried deeply, appearing as an orange-white splotch in the image, surrounded by a disk of gas and dust that continues to add to their mass. A closer look at the image reveals that ...

The red galaxy interacting with a spiral galaxy was magnified and distorted in an unusual way, which NASA said involved a "rare alignment between the galaxies, the lens, and the observer," known as a ...

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A cosmic object in the shape of a glowing question mark has photobombed one of the latest images captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope — and scientists think they know what it might be. The ...

Close scrutiny of a recent image from the Webb Space Telescope revealed some questionable punctuation. By Dennis Overbye The astronomers will tell you it is just an optical illusion, a pair of ...

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