James Webb Space Telescope

What would the James Webb Space Telescope look like if you saw it in space? This space mission found out
Clever calculations by two astronomers enabled Gaia to capture an image of Webb in space.

An enormous brain in a jar? NASA's best space telescope just saw something really weird...
James Webb Space Telescope explores the Exposed Cranium Nebula

James Webb Space Telescope | See the latest images
See the latest full colour images to be released by the JWST.
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See Uranus spin in a brand new video. Scientists get 3D view and unlock secrets of the planet's atmosphere
A new view of Uranus by the James Webb Space Telescope.

One image tracks the same cosmic object across space and time. It's all down to a strange quirk of physics
A new image sees the same dot across a century… and it had changed

Monster stars are discovered shortly after the Big Bang. And they may have solved a huge cosmic mystery

Webb has done it again. New-found galaxy at the dawn of time is challenging what we know about the Universe
Webb sees galaxy as it existed just after the Big Bang

Webb's biggest dark matter map shows the Universe's 'invisible scaffolding' in stunning detail
Map builds on previous studies to produce a new view of dark matter's cosmic influence

Webb Telescope zooms in on the Eye of God, revealing a dying star in intricate detail
Webb's view reveals what our own Sun may look like 5 billion years from now

Two students fixed NASA's powerful space telescope without leaving Earth. And they have the tattoos to prove it

Webb Telescope sees strange dust spirals produced by a pair of rare stars, and gives astronomers a surprise

This dying star is forming a strange spider structure, and Webb is giving scientists a brand new view

JWST finds building blocks of life in another Galaxy for the first time

JWST finds a doomed star just before it explodes. Here's why the discovery’s a huge breakthrough

Webb may have just seen where alien moons come from, around a young planet close to Earth

Near the black hole at our Galaxy's centre, there are things that even the Webb Telescope can't see

This star's jet is 8 lightyears long, perched on the edge of our Galaxy, and could help settle a big scientific debate

Webb captures stunning view of enormous stars hidden within a dusty, cosmic cloud

New Webb image! Space telescope shows what's really going on at the heart of a butterfly-shaped dying star

Webb may have found a new planet in the habitable zone around the star closest to our Sun

Webb Telescope reveals the hidden secrets of a dying sun expelling stellar material into the cosmos

The James Webb Space Telescope has found the most distant galaxy ever seen, at the dawn of the cosmos. Again.
Galaxy MoM-z14 traces back to just 280 million years after the Big Bang

Remember Webb's 'impossible' black holes? Astronomers may have found the answer in the Infinity Galaxy

