In the cover photo the spiral galaxy NGC 1300, a 69 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus (Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Janice Lee (STScI), Thomas Williams (Oxford), and the PHANGS team) shows its …
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Feast for our eyes with the newest Webb masterpiece: the heart of the Milky Way
The Nasa agency diffused the newest image of the James Webb Space Telescope, showing a portion of the dense center of our galaxy. The Milky Way is unveiled in unprecedented detail, including features astronomers have …
The colors of a star: before going supernova
The star WR 124, a star of 30 times the mass of the Sun, is going to be a supernova and the James Webb Telescope captured its brief Wolf-Rayet phase, in all its colors, before …
Why follow the James Webb Telescope’s discoveries?
The James Webb Telescope launched in summer 2022 is a NASA mission, with the partnership of ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency). The telescope gives full-color images and spectroscopic data and it …