James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

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A trip through space

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/watch-this-amazing-3d-visualization-fly-through-view-of-5000-galaxies-from-the-james-webb-space-telescope/vi-AA1Bydgw?ocid=hpmsn

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NASA's Webb Telescope Unmasks True Nature of the Cosmic Tornado 

March 24, 2025 10:00AM Release ID: 2025-112

 

Summary

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy.

 

When peering out into space, we get a 2D view of a 3D universe. Sometimes, images will capture objects that appear close to each other on the sky, but are actually at wildly different distances and are unassociated with each other.

 

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured this beautiful juxtaposition of the nearby protostellar outflow known as Herbig-Haro 49/50 with a perfectly positioned, more distant spiral galaxy. Due to the close proximity of this Herbig-Haro object to the Earth, this new composite infrared image of the outflow from a young star allows researchers to examine details on small spatial scales like never before. With Webb, we can better understand how the jet activity associated with the formation of young stars can affect their surrounding environment.

 

Full Article:

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-112

[There is a 1 min video in link]

 

Pic Description:

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed Herbig-Haro 49/50, an outflow from a nearby still-forming star, in high-resolution near- and mid-infrared light. The young star is off to the lower right corner of the Webb image.Intricate features of the outflow, represented in reddish-orange color, provide detailed clues about how young stars form and how their jet activity affects the environment around them. A chance alignment in this direction of the sky provides a beautiful juxtaposition of this nearby Herbig-Haro object (located within our Milky Way) with a face-on spiral galaxy in the distant background. 

 

Protostars are young stars in the process of formation that generally launch narrow jets of material. These jets move through the surrounding environment, in some cases extending to large distances away from the protostar.  

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What the Webb telescope continues to uncover is awe-inspiring. Sadly, many will attribute the intricacy and beauty found in the vastness of the universe to mere chance, refusing to acknowledge even the possibility of a masterful designer behind what they see. They are skeptical, despite the obvious evidence.

 

Blind Perception

 

When Webb's inquiring eye began its search,
It lifted veils to show the farthest light.
And now that man has reached the highest perch,
He can observe the stars beyond the night.

 

A random cause is all that they can see,
And thus they praise the god of happenstance.
They laud their deity with fickle glee,
Failing to note who built the vast expanse.

 

What is revealed to them is just a glance
Inside the hand of one they can't conceive.
They credit all that Webb displays to chance,
The non-existent god to whom they cleave.

 

Though they perceive what lies beyond the sky,
They blind their inner eye and chase the lie.

 

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NASA's Webb Sees Galaxy Mysteriously Clearing Fog of Early Universe

March 26, 2025 12:00PM Release ID: 2025-116

 

Summary

Unexpected, bright hydrogen emission caught astronomers by surprise.

 

The early universe was filled with a thick fog of neutral hydrogen. Even though the first stars and galaxies emitted copious amounts of ultraviolet light, that light struggled to pierce the fog. It took hundreds of millions of years for the neutral hydrogen to become ionized, electrons stripped from protons, allowing light to travel freely through space.

 

Astronomers are seeking to understand this unique time of transformation, known as the era of reionization. A newly discovered galaxy illuminated this era in an unexpected way. JADES-GS-z13-1, observed just 330 million years after the big bang, shows bright hydrogen emission that should have been absorbed by the cosmic fog. Theorists are struggling to explain how its light could have pierced the fog at such an early time.

 

Full Article:

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-116.html

 

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The incredibly distant galaxy JADES-GS-z13-1, observed just 330 million years after the big bang, was initially discovered with deep imaging from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera). Now, an international team of astronomers definitively has identified powerful hydrogen emission from this galaxy at an unexpectedly early period in the universe’s history. JADES-GS-z-13 has a redshift (z) of 13, which is an indication of its age and distance.

Edited March 26 by ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone

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Just scroll down, you will see multiple news about space. 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/james-webb-telescope-zooms-bizarre-180510002.html

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NASA Webb Explores Effect of Strong Magnetic Fields on Star Formation

April 02, 2025 10:00AM Release ID: 2025-115

 

Summary

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong magnetic fields.

 

Despite decades of study, the process of star formation still holds many mysteries. Stars are the source of nearly all the universe’s chemical elements, including carbon and oxygen, so understanding why and how they form — or not — is a crucial initial step in understanding how the universe works and the origins of just about everything, including life on Earth. 

 

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy is the star-forming region Sagittarius C, which despite a wealth of raw material does not make as many stars as astronomers would expect. Two new studies have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to investigate star formation in this extreme environment that is relatively near the supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way, at 200 light-years distance. 

 

Full Article:

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-115.html

 

Pic Description:

Labeling, compass arrows, and scale bars provide context for these MeerKAT and James Webb Space Telescope images. The star-forming region Sagittarius C, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, is about 200 light-years from the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.

 

Huge vertical filamentary structures in the MeerKAT radio data echo those Webb captured on a smaller scale, in infrared, in a blue-green hydrogen cloud. Astronomers think the strong magnetic fields in the heart of the galaxy are shaping the filaments.

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NASA Webb's Autopsy of Planet Swallowed by Star Yields Surprise

April 10, 2025 10:00am Release ID: 2025-117

 

Summary

Lingering brightness provides evidence for how planet met its demise.

 

Every year, scientists around the world apply for observing time on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. When proposals are selected after a vigorous vetting, the programs go into Webb’s observation queue for the future, ready to be scheduled based on various factors, including windows of visibility.

 

However, what if an astronomer wants to study something, but they don’t know ahead of time exactly when that event will take place? Or where? Think supernova explosions or a gamma ray burst. This is called a Target of Opportunity (ToO) observation, which astronomers can define in the proposal planning phase, ready to have them ‘enacted’ when the time comes.

 

One of the first ToO programs performed by Webb has now proven fruitful, providing insights into the immediate aftermath of when a star swallowed its own planet.

 

Full Article 

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-117.html

 

Pic Description:

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of what is thought to be the first ever recorded planetary engulfment event revealed a hot accretion disk surrounding the star, with an expanding cloud of cooler dust enveloping the scene. Webb also revealed that the star did not swell to swallow the planet, but the planet’s orbit actually slowly decayed over time.

 

This illustration depicts the sequence of events that took place over millions of years, based on observations from Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) and NIRSpec (NIR-Infrared Spectrograph).

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Starts With A Bang — April 9, 2025

The sky is brighter than astronomers imagined

The most famous Hubble images show glittering stars and galaxies amidst the black backdrop of space. But more was captured than we realized.

 

Key Takeaways

Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed some of the deepest, most iconic views of space that humanity has ever had the privilege to behold. 

The deepest of the Hubble deep fields, the Ultra Deep Field and the eXtreme Deep Field, famously show compact, luminous galaxies amidst a sea of total darkness: a now-familiar sight. 

But much of the actual starlight had been oversubtracted as part of the field-flattening method used. When a proper reanalysis is conducted, the light is preserved, showing that the sky is brighter than anyone realized.

 

The deepest views of the Universe ever remain the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, with a cumulative total of 11 days of observing time (across all wavelengths of light), and a portion of the Ultra Deep Field that was cumulatively imaged for roughly twice as long: the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field.

 

Below, you can see the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, with the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field inlaid within it, in all their glory. These views represent some of the deepest images of the ultra-distant Universe ever taken, where many of the galaxies shown here are billions or even tens of billions of light-years away, with the most distant of all being around ~32 billion light-years distant.

 

Pic Description: 

The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) may have observed a region of sky just 1/32,000,000th of the total, but was able to uncover a whopping 5,500 galaxies within it: an estimated 10% of the total number of galaxies actually contained in this pencil-beam-style slice. The remaining 90% of galaxies are either too faint or too red or too obscured for Hubble to reveal, but when we extrapolate over the entire observable Universe, we expect to obtain a total of ~2 trillion galaxies.

 

Read more:

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/sky-brighter-astronomers-imagined/

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Dying Star's Energetic Display Comes Into Full Focus

April 14, 2025 10:00am Release ID: 2025-118

 

Summary

Only the James Webb Space Telescope has the ability to fully detail this planetary nebula’s dusty rings with its unique mid-infrared camera...

 

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date thanks to its unique mid-infrared observations. Webb’s image brings out the nebula’s nuances, particularly its “fuzzy” dusty rings. Also look for holes in the central pink region where material has broken through.

 

Two central stars, which appear as one in Webb’s image, formed this scene over thousands of years — and will keep at it for thousands more.

 

Full Article:

https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-118.html

 

Pic Description:

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date thanks to its unique mid-infrared observations. Webb shows its rings as intricate clumps of dust. It’s also easier to see holes punched through the bright pink central region.

 

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Half of the universe's hydrogen gas, long unaccounted for, has been found

by Robert Sanders , University of California - Berkeley

 

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago. In fact, more than half of normal matter—half of the 15% of the universe's matter that is not dark matter—cannot be accounted for in the glowing stars and gas we see...

 

Stacking galaxies

While the still mysterious dark matter makes up the bulk—about 84%—of matter in the universe, the remainder is normal matter. Only about 7% of normal matter is in the form of stars, while the rest is in the form of invisible hydrogen gas—most of it ionized—in galaxies and the filaments that connect galaxies in a kind of cosmic network.

 

Read more:

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-universe-hydrogen-gas-unaccounted.html

 

Pic Description:

An artist's depiction of the halo of hot hydrogen gas surrounding the Milky Way galaxy (center) and two satellite galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The halo is more extended that astronomers originally thought, and contains enough hydrogen gas to resolve the problem of the universe's missing baryonic mass. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss; NASA/CXC/Ohio State/A Gupta et al

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NASA's Hubble Tracks a Roaming Magnetar of Unknown Origin

April 15, 2025 Release ID: 2025-010

 

Summary

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy.

 

Researchers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy from an unknown place of origin. Researchers say that this runaway object is the likeliest candidate in our Milky Way galaxy for a magnetar that was not born in a supernova explosion as initially predicted. Only about 30 magnetars have been discovered so far. A magnetar is a neutron star with a magnetic field about a trillion times more powerful than Earth’s magnetosphere. If a magnetar were only half the Moon’s distance, its intense field would wipe out the magnetic strip of every credit card on our planet. If a human got within 600 miles of a magnetar it would rip apart every atom inside the body.

 

Read more:

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-tracks-a-roaming-magnetar-of-unknown-origin/

 

Pic Description:

This is an artist’s impression of a magnetar, which is a special type of neutron star with an incredibly strong magnetic field. Neutron stars are some of the most compact and extreme objects in the universe. These stars typically pack more than the mass of the Sun into a sphere of neutrons about 12 miles across. The neutron star is depicted as a white-blueish sphere. The magnetic field is shown as filaments streaming out from its polar regions.

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Sculpted by Luminous Stars

Apr 14, 2025 Monika Luabeya

 

This new image, released on April 4, 2025, showcases the dazzling young star cluster NGC 346. Although both the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope have released images of NGC 346 previously, this image includes new data and is the first to combine Hubble observations made at infrared, optical, and ultraviolet wavelengths into an intricately detailed view of this vibrant star-forming factory.

 

Hubble’s exquisite sensitivity and resolution were instrumental in uncovering the secrets of NGC 346’s star formation. Using two sets of observations taken 11 years apart, researchers traced the motions of NGC 346’s stars, revealing them to be spiraling in toward the center of the cluster. This spiraling motion arises from a stream of gas from outside of the cluster that fuels star formation in the center of the turbulent cloud.

 

Read more:

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-spots-stellar-sculptors-in-nearby-galaxy/

 

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Hubble Provides New View of Galactic Favorite

 

NASA Hubble Mission Team

Goddard Space Flight Center

Apr 16, 2025

 

As part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) is sharing a new image series revisiting stunning, previously released Hubble targets with the addition of the latest Hubble data and new processing techniques.

 

ESA/Hubble published a new image of NGC 346 as the first installment in the series. Now, they are revisiting a fan-favorite galaxy with new image processing techniques. The new image reveals finer detail in the galaxy’s disk, as well as more background stars and galaxies...

 

Though packed with stars, the Sombrero Galaxy is surprisingly not a hotbed of star formation. Less than one solar mass of gas is converted into stars within the knotted, dusty disk of the galaxy each year. Even the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, which at nine billion solar masses is more than 2,000 times more massive than the Milky Way’s central black hole, is fairly calm.

 

Read more:

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-provides-new-view-of-galactic-favorite/

 

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Hubble Provides New View of Galactic Favorite

 

NASA Hubble Mission Team

Goddard Space Flight Center

Apr 16, 2025

 

As part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) is sharing a new image series revisiting stunning, previously released Hubble targets with the addition of the latest Hubble data and new processing techniques.

 

ESA/Hubble published a new image of NGC 346 as the first installment in the series. Now, they are revisiting a fan-favorite galaxy with new image processing techniques. The new image reveals finer detail in the galaxy’s disk, as well as more background stars and galaxies...

 

Though packed with stars, the Sombrero Galaxy is surprisingly not a hotbed of star formation. Less than one solar mass of gas is converted into stars within the knotted, dusty disk of the galaxy each year. Even the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, which at nine billion solar masses is more than 2,000 times more massive than the Milky Way’s central black hole, is fairly calm.

 

Read more:

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-provides-new-view-of-galactic-favorite/

 

One day, God willing, I'll do an hyperdrive jump to be exactly at the right point to have this view in the main windows of my spaceship.

THIS IS MARVELLOUS ! 

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One day, God willing, I'll do an hyperdrive jump to be exactly at the right point to have this view in the main windows of my spaceship.

THIS IS MARVELLOUS ! 

Wouldn't that be awesome! Please remember me. I'll keep a spot open in my calendar....

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Meet Zhúlóng - The Milky Way 'Twin'

That Shakes Up Our Cosmic Timeline

17 April 2025. ByMichelle Starr

 

Back when the Universe was new, following the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, galaxies took a bit of time to assemble themselves from the surrounding primordial soup.

 

A new discovery right at the end of the Cosmic Dawn is challenging how long we thought that assembly took. JWST has spotted a huge, ultramassive galaxy as it appeared 12.8 billion years ago, so intricately structured that it can only belong to the most spectacular category of galaxies: the grand design spiral...

 

The grand design spiral galaxy is the most magnificently structured sort of galaxy, with prominent, well-formed and visible spiral arms curving away from a bright, well-defined galactic center; almost the platonic ideal of what a spiral galaxy should look like.

 

https://www.sciencealert.com/meet-zhlng-the-milky-way-twin-that-shakes-up-our-cosmic-timeline

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These are truly incredible.Thank you !

   please keep 'em coming