Astronomers using the James Webb Telescope think they’ve spotted three ancient and stupendously large stars that could be powered by dark matter, originating around 400 million years after the Big Bang.
Larger than the Milky Way, this wave managed to form a mysterious hydrogen “recycling plant” in one of space’s scariest regions.
“THE MODELS JUST DON’T PREDICT THIS…”
Using the most powerful space telescope ever built, astronomers spotted a galaxy that existed 13.4 billion years ago
“We would expect temperatures to be slowly growing warmer, not colder.”
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has passed its first assignment with flying colours, after it handed in a spectacular photo to NASA.
Source: Inverse.com NASA’S JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE (JWST) has finally reached its cosmic perch, and is gearing up for its observations of the ancient universe. On Monday, JWST settled into its final orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2. This is a gravitationally stable point where the Sun and Earth’s gravity cancel each other out. The
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and several ground-based facilities, astronomers have discovered a long-period sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting TOI-2257. Intriguingly, the planet’s orbit is highly elliptical, suggestive of a possible perturbing outer gas-giant planet in the TOI-2257 system.
A Halloween launch for NASA’s next space telescope is looking unlikely.
NASA engineers are getting one last look at the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a final test to show that its 18 gold-tinted mirror segments can unfold into a precise honeycomb configuration. After the test concludes this week, the giant instrument will be folded up, packed into a shipping container, and shipped off to French Guiana, where it will launch into space on 31 October.
