NASA's Webb Depicts Staggering Structure in 19 Nearby Spiral Galaxies
WEBJan 29, 2024 · Study of these structures will provide key insights about how galaxies build, maintain, and shut off star formation. Dive Into the Interior. Evidence shows that galaxies grow from inside out – star formation begins at galaxies’ cores and spreads along their arms, spiraling away from the center.
Webb telescope spies millions of stars in stunning spiral galaxies | CNN
WEBFeb 2, 2024 · The James Webb Space Telescope has captured scintillating images of 19 spiral galaxies — and the millions of stars that call them home — in unprecedented detail never seen before by astronomers.
Webb Finds Early Galaxies Weren't Too Big for Their Britches After …
WEBAug 26, 2024 · But now astronomers can explain some surprising recent discoveries. Not long after the James Webb Space Telescope began science operations in July 2022, breathless headlines proclaimed that observations of distant galaxies were “breaking theories of cosmic evolution.”. Astronomers had found galaxies that appeared much brighter than expected.
NASA’s Webb Peers into the Extreme Outer Galaxy
WEBSep 12, 2024 · Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than 58,000 light-years away from the Galactic Center. (For comparison, Earth is approximately 26,000 light-years from the center.) A team of scientists used Webb’s NIRCam […]
NASA’s Webb Provides Another Look Into Galactic Collisions
WEB2 days ago · Smile for the camera! An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the spiral a happier outlook thanks to the two bright “eyes” and the wide semicircular “smile.” The region has been observed before in infrared by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2005, however […]
Webb telescope blasts off successfully — launching a new era in astronomy
WEBDec 25, 2021 · The James Webb Space Telescope — humanity’s biggest gamble yet in its quest to probe the Universe — soared into space on 25 December, marking the culmination of decades of work by astronomers...
NASA’s Chandra Finds Galaxy Cluster That Crosses the Streams
WEB19 hours ago · Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have found a galaxy cluster has two streams of superheated gas crossing one another. This result shows that crossing the streams may lead to the creation of new structure. Researchers have discovered an enormous, comet-like tail of hot gas — spanning over 1.6 million light-years long — trailing behind a galaxy within the galaxy cluster ...
Webb Telescope Scientists Marvel at NASA Webb Telescope’s …
WEBJul 12, 2022 · The Webb telescope — NASA’s vaunted successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, 30 years and nearly $10 billion in the making — is equipped to gain access to this realm of cosmic history, study the...
Nasa's James Webb telescope reveals millions of galaxies
WEBJul 22, 2022 · Nasa's new super telescope reveals 10 times more galaxies like our own Milky Way in the early Universe.
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WEBGalaxies Actively Forming in Early Universe Caught Feeding on Cold Gas. 5 min read. Researchers analyzing data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed three galaxies that may be actively forming when the universe was only 400 to …