NASA Webb Telescope

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From Hubble discoveries to your screen. 👇 You can do NASA science, too. With Galaxy Zoo, volunteers classify @NASAWebb galaxies – sometimes as the first humans to see them.  👀 Get started: science.nasa.gov/citizen-scienc…

Shine, dream, smile! Oh, let us light up the night… with a pair of new stars, and maybe some planets! Webb captured edge-on views of two protoplanetary disks, which will help us better understand the process of planet formation. esawebb.org/images/potm260…

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Webb directly imaged 29 Cygni b, an object 15 times the mass of Jupiter, to find out if it formed like a planet or a star, since they result from different processes. Data show it's a planet! science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/…

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We can't wait to rock out the show with you, @NASARoman! 🤩 Together, we'll usher in an exciting new era of cosmic discovery.

Amaze amaze amaze! Webb teamed up with @NASAHubble, observing the ringed planet in complementary wavelengths of light to give us a richer, more layered understanding of its atmosphere. go.nasa.gov/4lMn2c4

Is it just me or is that galaxy getting closer? 👀 M90 (NGC 4569), shown here in this new Webb image, is indeed getting closer! Its orbit through the Virgo cluster has accelerated so much that M90 is in the process of escaping the cluster entirely and is moving in our direction.

Webb captured this new image of galaxy Messier 58, in both the near and mid-infrared, as part of a treasury of 55 massive, star-forming galaxies. The data on the properties of these galaxies will add insight to our picture of how galaxies grow and evolve over cosmic time.

Two eyes on the Black Eye Galaxy! Data from Hubble and @NASAWebb combine in this new image of the Black Eye Galaxy, also known as Messier 64. Astronomers used Hubble and Webb to study this galaxy to learn more about star formation in nearby galaxies: go.nasa.gov/4bALYih

Spring into spring with this new image of the Cat's Paw Nebula from NASA's Chandra and @NASAWebb. We expect it to start knocking planets off the counter for sport any minute now. 🐾

Let’s get to the heart of it. 🧡 This new image from Hubble and @NASAWebb takes a closer look at the core of Messier 101, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy. At 25 million light-years away, M101 is one of the closest “face-on” spiral galaxies to us: go.nasa.gov/4lydce2

Now on display at Air and Space: 🌌 James Webb Space Telescope Pathfinder, a full-scale engineering model used by @nasawebb for critical testing in development of the spacecraft ☀️ Parker Solar Probe full-scale model built primarily out of spare parts and back-ups from the spacecraft that has flown through the Sun’s corona

#NASAWebb has revolutionized our ability to study the formation and growth of new planetary systems, some with similarities to our own. On March 18, join us for a conversation on what we’ve learned about young planetary systems. youtube.com/live/Sz_i_4_fG…

Webb may showcase the beauty of deep space objects, but it also plays a strong role in planetary defense applications. Using Webb observations, experts accurately measured the size and orbit of asteroid 2024 YR4 and confirmed it will not impact our Moon in 2032. go.nasa.gov/3ORMC3c

Why does dark matter matter? Scientists think dark matter started clumping together first in the early universe, eventually pulling regular matter together, prompting galaxy and star formation to begin earlier than they might have otherwise.

We can’t see dark matter. It doesn’t emit, reflect, absorb, or block light, but like everything with mass, it has gravity. If we observe how and where light is being warped by gravity, we can make a map of the matter warping it, even if that matter is invisible to us.

If it’s invisible, how do you map it and why does it *matter*? Using Webb data, researchers mapped locations of dark matter (shown in blue) across a field of nearly 800,000 galaxies. nasa.gov/missions/webb/…