Webb captures ‘haunting portrait’ of the pillars of creation

Webb captures ‘haunting portrait’ of the pillars of creation

This is not an illustration of dementors from the Harry Potter universe, nor is it a digital artist’s imagination of what spirits look like. This is actually an image of the pillars of creation—clouds of interstellar gas in the Eagle Nebula—captured by the James Webb Space Telescope in the mid-infrared spectrum. These pillars were first […]

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James Webb Space Telescope captures curious concentric rings in space

James Webb Space Telescope captures curious concentric rings in space

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope continues to reveal images that give a look at the distant universe. The latest is an image of concentric dust rings emitted by a pair of stars, which are over 5,000 light years away from Earth. The pair is collectively known as Wolf-Rayet 140 and Webb Space telescope captures the […]

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Space news weekly recap: Artemis I cryogenic test to Webb images of Mars

Space news weekly recap: Artemis I cryogenic test to Webb images of Mars

NASA’s Artemis 1 cryogenic tanking demonstration test After the demonstration, launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson said that all the objectives have been met. After hours of issues, NASA eventually managed to load nearly 1 4 million litres of fuel into the rocket. After the aborted launch attempt on September 3, the space agency had replaced two […]

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James Webb Space Telescope takes its first images and spectra of Mars

James Webb Space Telescope takes its first images and spectra of Mars

The European Space Agency (ESA) released the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images and infrared spectrum of Mars. The Webb telescope captured its first images and spectra of the red planet on September 5, 2022. Webb is situated approximately 1.5 million kilometres away from our planet at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2). From […]

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James Webb Space Telescope captures Tarantula Nebula in its full splendour

James Webb Space Telescope captures Tarantula Nebula in its full splendour

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured this beautiful image of a nebula called 30 Doradus. It is also referred to as the Tarantula Nebula because of the dusty filaments that feature prominently in previous telescope images of the nebula. This stellar nursery has been a favourite target of astronomers studying star formation and this […]

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James Webb Space Telescope captures image of near-perfect ‘Einstein ring’

James Webb Space Telescope captures image of near-perfect ‘Einstein ring’

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of an almost perfect “Einstein ring.” An Einstein ring is a ring of light created when light from a galaxy, star or other light-emitting cosmic objects passes near a massive object before it reaches the Earth, or in this case, the Webb telescope. When this happens, […]

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NASA’s Webb Telescope captures ‘Phantom Galaxy’ in unprecedented detail

NASA’s Webb Telescope captures ‘Phantom Galaxy’ in unprecedented detail

The James Webb Telescope captured this image that shows the heart of the Phantom Galaxy, which is officially known as M74. The stunning image reveals the delicate filaments of gas and dust in the spiral arms of the galaxy. The lack of gas at the centre of the galaxy also provides a view of the […]

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