Two students have engineered a fix to improve the imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope interferometer. They did this ...
The wavelengths of radio light are so large that you can't capture a high-resolution image with a single dish. To capture an ...
After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...
Just how big would a telescope need to be to actually see an alien world in detail? The James Webb Telescope just took a photo of a newly discovered exoplanet. Exciting stuff but the raw image just ...
Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working ...
A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was blocked using a coronagraph to reveal a planet to its right. The light at the ...
After the Hubble Space Telescope studied the oldest-known exoplanet in the galaxy, scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to learn how planets were able to form in the early universe. Credit: ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that forms a moon-forming disk of gas and dust around a newly formed planetary body. It is hoped the ...