James Webb space telescope

Image of star cluster sheds light on early stages of universe
James Webb space telescope brings insight into birth of stars at ‘cosmic noon’ with image of NGC 346 cluster
Harry Taylor
11, Jan, 2023 @8:36 PM

Best of 2022: James Webb space telescope – thousands of galaxies in a grain of sand – podcast
Astronomer Prof Ray Jayawardhana speaks to Ian Sample about the first spectacular images from the JWST – and what they tell us about the cosmos
Presented by Ian Sample, produced by Madeleine Finlay, sound design by Tony Onuchukwu, and the executive producer was Lorna Stewart
05, Jan, 2023 @5:00 AM

Above and beyond: key events in 2022 that shaped space exploration
It was a great year for a slight lifting of the veil on the final frontier – from redirecting an asteroid to a glimpse into creation
Richard Luscombe in Miami
31, Dec, 2022 @8:00 AM

James Webb telescope captures ‘cosmic fingerprint’ formed by two giant stars
Series of 17 concentric dust rings was spawned by Wolf-Rayet 140 binary system thousands of light years away
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
12, Oct, 2022 @3:00 PM

Will we ever see pictures of the big bang? We ask an expert
Dr Matthew Bothwell, public astronomer at the University of Cambridge, on whether humans will one day be able to observe the origin of the universe
Coco Khan
23, Sep, 2022 @2:00 PM

‘Historic’ James Webb images show exoplanet in unprecedented detail
Telescope uses infrared light to reveal blazing gas giant shrouded in dusty red clouds
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
01, Sep, 2022 @2:03 PM

Webb telescope zooms in on planet beyond our solar system
The team observed carbon dioxide on a hot gas giant called Wasp-39b, about 700 light years away
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
25, Aug, 2022 @4:11 PM

James Webb telescope gives a stunning look at galaxies far, far away
What the telescope’s incredible images show about how it operates – and the universe itself
Archie Bland
24, Aug, 2022 @6:45 AM

Wednesday briefing: The telescope revealing the secrets of the universe
In today’s newsletter: After the James Webb space telescope sends extraordinary images of Jupiter, astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst explains why it’s so important
Archie Bland
24, Aug, 2022 @5:28 AM

The Webb telescope: a source of wonder that is both aesthetic and technological | Monica Grady
The inspirational JWST is pushing the limits of how far back in time cosmologists can see
Monica Grady
17, Jul, 2022 @6:30 AM

Revealed: hundreds of billions of stars. Now let’s search them for life | Louisa Preston
For astrobiologists like me, the first image from Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals infinite possibilities of life beyond Earth, says Louisa Preston of University College London
Louisa Preston
14, Jul, 2022 @7:00 AM

Disco was right! Nasa’s glitterball images were predicted by pop music
The James Webb space telescope’s pictures are impressive – but disco and Daft Punk did it first
Alex Rayner
14, Jul, 2022 @5:00 AM
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