NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched to space. Its mirror is composed of 18 individual segments that have been aligned so accurately, that they ...

Since its deployment, the James Webb Space Telescope has been fine-tuned by experts to maintain its powerful optical ...

From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb ... the Hubble Space Telescope can match the breadth of Webb's scientific targets, but Webb's larger mirror allows ...

We live in a golden age of planet discovery ... Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, orbiting 1 million miles from Earth, scientists peered closely at the planet AF Lep b, an extremely ...

The bright stars in JWST's image all have six large and two small snowflake-like diffraction spikes because of the way light travels as a wave from the 18 hexagonal mirrors in the telescope's ...

An artist's illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope observing the cosmos 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA-GSFC / Adriana M. Gutierrez (CI Lab) - Giant mirror: Webb's mirror ...

In its short existence, the James Webb Space ... six-and-a-half-metre mirror, results in some glorious images,” she says. In her new book, Webb’s Universe: The space telescope images that ...

Its large mirror collects faint infrared light ... images of objects billions of light-years away. 1,2 The telescope’s cooling mechanism is equally important. Located in the vacuum of space and with ...

James Webb Space Telescope imagery of Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744) delivers three galaxy clusters and so much more. Take a ...

A group of astronomers analyzing data from the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) say some of the oldest galaxies in our ...