James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

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̽��ֱ��image shows a deep galaxy field, featuring thousands of galaxies of various shapes and sizes. A cutout indicates a particular galaxy, known as JADES-GS-z6, which was a research target for this result. It appears as a blurry smudge of blue, red and green.

Webb sees carbon-rich dust grains in the first billion years of cosmic time

19 Jul 2023

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has observed the chemical signature of carbon-rich dust grains in the early universe.

This infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was taken for the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or JADES, programme.

Early universe crackled with bursts of star formation, Webb Telescope shows

06 Jun 2023

Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? ̽��ֱ��James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a partnership...

This image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope highlights the region of study by the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES).

Webb telescope reaches new milestone in its search for distant galaxies

09 Dec 2022

New findings confirm that JWST has surpassed the Hubble telescope in its ability to observe the early Universe

Dust plumes observed being ‘pushed’ into interstellar space by intense starlight

12 Oct 2022

Astronomers have observed directly for the first time how intense light from stars can ‘push’ matter. Researchers from the universities of Cambridge...

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