Using its near-infrared camera, the Webb telescope has revealed never-before seen features in the galactic center.
The European space telescope is providing a treasure trove of astronomical data.
The ancient galaxy's magnetic field, 16,000 light-years across, is the furthest astronomers have ever detected.
Webb is casting the universe in a new light, but the space telescope's discovery of a cosmological question mark has us scratching our heads.
The PIGS survey sought out—and found—a group of metal-poor stars staying close to the galaxy’s core.
The Royal Observatory Greenwich will announce the winners of its astrophotography contest later this year. Check out these photos from the shortlist.
Light-years-long filaments perpendicular to those previously discovered are sprouting from the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*.
They're not called "supermassive" black holes for nothing, as a video from NASA illustrates.
A higher-resolution view is helping scientists understand the physics behind the strangest objects in the universe.
Exploded stellar remnants 11,000 light-years away appear much more vivid in a new Webb telescope image.
A rare ‘ultramassive’ black hole, 30 billion times the mass of the Sun, is lurking in the cosmos.
New observations have expanded the largest 2D map of the sky.
Six distant dots spotted by Webb are actually massive 13-billion-year-old galaxies.
New research on pulsing stars has shifted the boundary of the Milky Way a few thousand light-years closer to the Andromeda galaxy.
Data from Webb Space Telescope and ALMA reveals more about a group of five galaxies.
Our glorious spiral home apparently has a doppelganger in the early universe.
From black holes to the oldest light in the universe, we saw a remarkable cosmos this year.
The bubble is spinning around the galactic core at mind-boggling speeds.
You’ve never seen the spiral-armed Messier 74 quite like this.
These gorgeous images of the sky are shortlisted in Royal Observatory Greenwich’s annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.
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