NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is known for looking deep into the universe with an unprecedented level precision and ...

In its short existence, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has transformed our understanding of the universe. It has peered at planets, stars, galaxies and black holes, casting its eye over a ...

In preparation for the imminent arrival of NASA’s Juno spacecraft, astronomers have used ESO’s Very Large Telescope to obtain spectacular new infrared images of Jupiter. They are part of a campaign to ...

This is a composite image from several filters that represents emission from ionized gas, hydrocarbons, molecular gas, dust and scattered starlight. Most prominent is the Orion Bar, a wall of dense ...

Broadly speaking, scientists use telescopes to see things that are very far away from Earth. As targets get smaller or farther from Earth, it takes a larger effective aperture to get a clear picture.

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