The James Webb Space Telescope is helping to reveal the early evolution of black holes in the Universe. Recent studies using observations from this space telescope have led to the discovery of dozens of young quasars that arose in just the first billion years of the Universe’s existence. Quasars, which...
Beta Pictoris, a young system located just 63 light years away, continues to fascinate scientists with its mystery and unusual features. Researchers have been studying this system for decades and recently made an interesting new discovery. The first interesting feature of Beta Painter is the presence of a disk of...
Astronomers, using the James Webb Space Telescope, conducted a study of 12 cool brown dwarfs – small and not very bright stars. During the study, two of them, W1935 and W2220, showed remarkable similarities in composition, brightness and temperature. However, W1935 stood out among them by showing the presence of...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured its second image of Uranus in 2023. The photo looks very unusual and looks more like an illustration for a fantasy story with portals to another dimension. The pictures were taken using a near-infrared camera NIRCam. The final image clearly shows not...
When the JWST space telescope first saw the light in July 2022, it was witnessing a huge research program put together by members of the International Astronomical Union. This list included distant early galaxies, forming planets in gas and dust protoplanetary disks, as well as the end of the “dark...
The first super-Earth discovered by astronomers has been emitting strange signals for almost two decades, and scientists may finally have figured out why it’s happening. A new study suggests that this “dark planet” periodically forms volcanoes, spewing hot gases that form an atmosphere, and then it disappears, leaving the planet...
The detection of quartz particles in the exoplanet’s atmosphere was made possible using the James Webb Telescope’s MIRI infrared instrument. This case was the first of its kind. Quartz crystals are very small in size – about 10 nanometers. The presence of these particles was determined using data from the...
The NASA James Webb Orbital Observatory project team has published an interesting video on the results of space telescope research. New 3D visualization takes viewers on a journey through time just after the Big Bang. The video shows more than 5,000 galaxies in full color and three dimensions. The space...
NASA’s James Webb Orbital Observatory has discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date. This was reported by the press service of the Space Research Institute in Baltimore, which manages the James Webb project. The galaxy that houses the ancient black hole CEERS 1019 formed quite early in...