
NSF NOIRLab Astronomer Discovers Oldest Known Spiral Galaxy in the Universe
An international team led by NSF NOIRLab astronomer Christina Williams has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy known to date ...

With NASA’s Webb, Dying Star’s Energetic Display Comes Into Full Focus
Gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514 came into complete focus thanks to ...

NASA’s Webb Captures Neptune’s Auroras For First Time
For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured bright auroral activity on Neptune. Auroras occur when energetic ...

Webb Reveals Rapid-Fire Light Show From Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party, complete with a ...

NASA’s Webb Reveals Intricate Layers of Interstellar Dust, Gas
Once upon a time, the core of a massive star collapsed, creating a shockwave that blasted outward, ripping the star ...

Found: First Actively Forming Galaxy as Lightweight as Young Milky Way
For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy that not only existed around ...

Hats Off to NASA’s Webb: Sombrero Galaxy Dazzles in New Image
In a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a galaxy named for its resemblance to a broad-brimmed Mexican ...

NASA’s Hubble, Webb Probe Surprisingly Smooth Disk Around Vega
A team of astronomers at the University of Arizona, Tucson used NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes for an ...

‘Blood-Soaked’ Eyes: NASA’s Webb, Hubble Examine Galaxy Pair
The gruesome palette of these galaxies is owed to a mix of mid-infrared light from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, ...

Sharing “Deep Sky” in Hawai’i
For millennia, the night sky has inspired us to ponder profound questions: How did our Universe begin? Where do we ...

NASA’s Webb Peers into the Extreme Outer Galaxy
Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region ...

Webb Finds Early Galaxies Weren’t Too Big for Their Britches After All
When astronomers got their first glimpses of galaxies in the early universe from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, they were ...