Hubble Space Telescope

$NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light. Look for them at the center of the red diffraction spikes, appearing as an orange-white splotch. Herbig-Haro 46/47 is an important object to study because it is relatively young – only a few thousand years old. Star systems take millions of years to fully form.$

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The James Webb Space Telescope celebrates a year in service to human curiosity

Sheilah Kast

A million miles from the earth's atmosphere, the James Webb Space Telescope peers deep into the cosmos. With its advanced instruments scientists search distant galaxies for the secrets of our universe. After the Webb’s first year, we ask an astrophysicist and an astronomer: what’s next?
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Celebrating The Investigators Of The Heavens

Sheilah Kast

Four hundred years ago, after Galileo heard rumors that lenses in a tube could bring the planets and the surface of the moon into focus, he made detailed…