A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... interest to astronomers is the nebula's faint, Venn-diagram-like structure — two rings of ejected material shaped by the ...

The Joseph R. Lynch Observatory houses a 16-inch Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope equipped with SBIG CCD camera. Drexel faculty and students actively analyze data from the Sloan Digital Survey, ...

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Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Michael Ressler (NASA-JPL), Dave Jones (IAC) A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... nebula's faint, Venn-diagram-like structure ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found compelling evidence of a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Messier 83 galaxy. Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument detected highly ...

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