Paris: The James Webb Space Telescope has made a groundbreaking achievement by capturing its first direct image of an exoplanet, marking a significant milestone in space exploration. The telescope, operational since 2022, revealed the planet TWA 7b, located approximately 100 light-years from Earth. Unlike previous methods that inferred exoplanets through indirect signals, Webb’s advanced instruments, … Read more
Selfie shows 18 primary mirror segments of a telescope working together to gather light from a single star. The image was captured using a specially designed pupil imaging lens within the NIRCam camera. Selfie is a reminder of human ingenuity and a celebration of science. NASA shared a captivating selfie on its official Flickr account, … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope captured the first images of the Orion Nebula. The stellar nursery is located 1,350 light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion. It is reminiscent of the birthplace of our own solar system more than 4.5 billion years ago. The wall of dense gas and dust looks like a huge winged … Read more
WASHINGTON – After traveling nearly 1.5 million kilometers, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope arrived at its destination in space on Monday. Webb fired its onboard thrusters at 2 p.m. Eastern Time (1900 GMT) for nearly five minutes to complete the final postlaunch course correction to its trajectory, according to NASA. This mid-course correction burn inserted … Read more
WASHINGTON, Dec 30, 2021 (AFP) – From the Mars Ingenuity helicopter’s first powered flight on another world to the launch of the James Webb telescope that will peer into the earliest epoch of the Universe, 2021 was a huge year for humanity’s space endeavors. Beyond the science milestones, billionaires battled to reach the final frontier first, … Read more
KOUROU, (AFP) – The world’s most powerful space telescope on Saturday blasted off into orbit, headed to an outpost 1.5 million kilometres (930,000 miles) from Earth, after several delays caused by technical hitches. The James Webb Space Telescope, some three decades and billions of dollars in the making, left Earth enclosed in its Ariane 5 … Read more
PARIS, Dec 10, 2021 (AFP) – Peering into deep space and billions of years back in time, the James Webb telescope promises to offer the clearest glimpse yet of the Universe’s cosmic dawn, when the earliest galaxies began to form. The largest and most powerful telescope ever to be launched into space, which will take … Read more
