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Complex planetary nebula traced by Webb
Saturday, August 9, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Since their discovery in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that planetary nebulae, or the expanding shell of glowing gas expelled by a low-intermediate mass star late in its life, can come in all shapes and sizes. Most planetary nebula present as circular, elliptical, or bi-polar, but some st...
COSMOS-Web unveils deep universe map
Friday, June 13, 2025 by Richard Harris
The COSMOS-Web team has released the largest contiguous view of the deep universe ever captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), unveiling an unprecedented catalog of nearly 800,000 galaxies now available to the global scientific community. As the most expansive General Observer program of ...
120 hours from JWST
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
The central focus of the latest James Webb Space Telescope "Picture of the Month," a collaboration between NASA, ESA, and CSA, is the immense galaxy cluster Abell S1063. Located approximately 4.5 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Grus (the Crane), this enormous collection...
Digel Cloud 2S examined by NASAs JWST
Friday, September 13, 2024 by Richard Harris
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 ligh...