Tag: Goddard Space Flight Center

  • 3 Years of Science: 10 Cosmic Surprises from NASA’s Webb Telescope

    3 Years of Science: 10 Cosmic Surprises from NASA’s Webb Telescope

    Since July 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and analyze otherwise invisible infrared light, Webb is making observations that were once impossible, changing our view of the…

  • NASA Webb ‘Pierces’ Bullet Cluster, Refines Its Mass

    NASA Webb ‘Pierces’ Bullet Cluster, Refines Its Mass

    NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster — delivering highly detailed images that show a greater abundance of extremely faint and distant galaxies than ever before. Using Webb’s crisp near-infrared observations of this region, researchers…

  • Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center

    Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center

    The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of 250 million years. Its source was the spiral galaxy UGC 11397, which resides in the constellation Lyra (The Lyre). At…

  • NASA’s Webb Digs into Structural Origins of Disk Galaxies

    NASA’s Webb Digs into Structural Origins of Disk Galaxies

    Present-day disk galaxies often contain a thick, star-filled outer disk and an embedded thin disk of stars. For instance, our own Milky Way galaxy’s thick disk is approximately 3,000 light-years in height, and its thin disk is roughly 1,000 light-years…

  • Likely Saturn-Mass Planet Imaged by NASA Webb Is Lightest Ever Seen

    Likely Saturn-Mass Planet Imaged by NASA Webb Is Lightest Ever Seen

    Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have captured compelling evidence of a planet with a mass similar to Saturn orbiting the young nearby star TWA 7. If confirmed, this would represent Webb’s first direct image discovery of a planet,…

  • Hubble Studies Small but Mighty Galaxy

    Hubble Studies Small but Mighty Galaxy

    This portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope puts the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 in the spotlight. The galaxy is situated just 12.5 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs). It is a member of the…

  • Hubble Studies a Spiral’s Supernova Scene

    Hubble Studies a Spiral’s Supernova Scene

    This serene spiral galaxy hides a cataclysmic past. The galaxy IC 758, shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, is situated 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Hubble captured this image in 2023. IC 758 appears…

  • NASA Launching Rockets Into Radio-Disrupting Clouds

    NASA Launching Rockets Into Radio-Disrupting Clouds

    UPDATE June 30, 2025: The second rocket of the SEED mission launched on Saturday, June 28, at 8:11 p.m. Marshall Islands Time (MHT). Principal investigator Aroh Barjatya reports that the rocket launched into active science conditions in the ionosphere and…

  • NASA’s Webb ‘UNCOVERs’ Galaxy Population Driving Cosmic Renovation

    NASA’s Webb ‘UNCOVERs’ Galaxy Population Driving Cosmic Renovation

    Astronomers using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have identified dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic makeover that transformed the early universe into the one we know today. “When it comes to producing…

  • Frigid Exoplanet in Strange Orbit Imaged by NASA’s Webb

    Frigid Exoplanet in Strange Orbit Imaged by NASA’s Webb

    A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange by researchers has come into clearer view with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Using Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), researchers have successfully imaged one of two known planets surrounding the star 14…