Online catalog gives open science access to data from early universe A NASA-backed project using observations from the James ...

Astronauts Steven Smith and John Grunsfeld, appear as small figures in this wide-angle photograph from December 1999, taken ...

Related: James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... that most of the gas in the universe was somewhere between opaque and transparent. But directly around the galaxies, everything was clear.

GREENBELT, Md. — NASA on Tuesday unveiled a new batch of images from its new powerful space telescope, including a foamy blue and orange shot of a dying star. The first image from the $10 ...

NASA’s Webb telescope is pulling back the shroud on ... burning away the cosmic haze and making things transparent—a key time known as reionization. As the fog lifted, pockets of stars merged ...

Nearly 30 years ago, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the first image of the Pillars of Creation — the iconic star nursery featuring thick pillars of gas and dust. Now, the new James Webb ...

Hubble was limited by its wavelength range and couldn’t see through the dust like Webb. Already the telescope has discovered the farthest confirmed galaxy from about 350 million years after the ...

The new infrared image was taken with the VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. In the infrared, the dust that obscures many stars becomes nearly transparent, revealing a whole host ...

Sponsor Message Space telescopes have traditionally been named ... At the time, some astronomers were unhappy that NASA was not more transparent about how officials came to that decision.

The James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the birth ... dense clouds of gas around them and thus reveal the transparent universe we know today. In the study, the researchers used JWST ...