As part of ESA/Hubble's 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) is sharing a new image series ...

How small can you go when forming stars and brown dwarfs? The Flame Nebula, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, is a ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image ... For comparison, the Hubble mirror is only 2.4 meters (21 feet and four inches) in diameter. Thanks to this, "James Webb ...

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

This new image showcases NGC 346 ... Even though newer telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope are more powerful than Hubble, it still fulfills an important role as an optical space ...

"Our hope with this kind of research is to understand our own solar system, life, and ourselves in the comparison ... larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror, meaning Webb has six times ...

NASA's James ... Webb was able to reveal fine features of the star's outflow and reveal the fuzzy object to be a distant spiral galaxy. This side-by-side comparison shows a Spitzer Space Telescope ...

This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared view from the Hubble Space Telescope on the left, with infrared views from the James Webb Space Telescope in the insets.

The James Webb ... in comparison to other exoplanetary systems, so we can contextualize our existence." Very few exoplanets have been directly imaged, as distant planets are many thousands of times ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured four of them in the stellar system HR ...