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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured its most detailed infrared view of Messier 82, revealing around 16.5 million stars hidden behind thick clouds of cosmic dust. (Image: NASA)

NASA's James Webb telescope reveals millions of hidden stars in ‘Cigar’ galaxy: Why it matters

June 30, 2026 9:11 am

A 65-hour observation campaign by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced its most detailed infrared view yet of Messier 82, exposing millions of stars hidden behind dense cosmic dust.

JWST has observed WASP-94A b where magnesium silicate clouds form on the cooler morning side and vanish by evening due to extreme heat, offering new insight into the atmospheric and cloud dynamics of Hot Jupiter exoplanets. (source: NASA)

Rocky clouds every morning, gone by evening: Study shows Hot Jupiter’s weird weather

May 30, 2026 9:35 am

NASA’s James Webb Telescope spotted rocky mineral clouds forming each morning and vanishing by evening on the distant exoplanet WASP-94A b, revealing extreme weather on a Hot Jupiter.

Researchers say the new map provides a dramatically clearer picture of these structures than previous observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. (Image: ESA)

JWST maps the universe’s vast cosmic web in unprecedented detail

May 16, 2026 8:34 pm

The COSMOS-Web survey has mapped galaxies across nearly 14 billion years of cosmic history in unprecedented detail.

If we could view our galaxy from the outside, it would appear to have a thin disc with some distinct spiral “arms” that are brightened by stars.

We thought we understood how a galaxy forms — and the universe just proved us wrong

December 05, 2025 4:29 pm

‘Alaknanda’ is the latest galaxy discovered by the James Webb telescope that challenges popular theories amongst astronomers

NASA explains that the lobes are outlined by light emitted from molecular hydrogen (H₂), which consists of two bonded hydrogen atoms. Over thousands of years, gas escaping from the centre of the nebula has inflated these massive bubbles. (Image: NASA)

James Webb space telescope reveals new view of dying star ‘Red Spider Nebula’

November 28, 2025 8:57 am

The Red Spider Nebula gives us a possible preview of what might happen to our own Sun in about 5 billion years: as the Sun runs out of fuel, it may also swell into a red giant, shed its outer layers, and produce a planetary nebula, leaving behind a white dwarf core.

Nevertheless, Zavala pointed out that GHZ2 does not exhibit certain classic indicators of active galactic nucleus activity, implying that star formation might primarily fuel the galaxy, potentially via supermassive stars with masses significantly exceeding that of the sun, or through atypical star formation processes. (Image: Royal Astronomical Society)

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NASA's James Webb telescope offers a look at the universe from 13 billion years ago

July 13, 2022 11:43 am

Thousands of galaxies — including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared — have appeared in James Webb’s view for the first time, all captured in a relatively small area.