The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

William Balmer, a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University and lead author of the study, spoke to Space.com about how the images were captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, and why these ...

NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has done it again. Though it's notoriously difficult to snap direct images of distant planets, the overachieving ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured direct images ... Capturing images of Neptune's auroras had remained out of reach until the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) turned its ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured groundbreaking images ... The James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first-ever direct images of Neptune’s auroras, revealing surprising ...

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in ... with a clear look at the presence of CO2 in the distant exoplanets, which could lead ...

Scientists observed and captured the first clear evidence of auroras on Neptune using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... of detail and clarity of the images was surprising." ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured ... first spacecraft to fly by Neptune, detect its auroras in infrared, and snap a picture of the majestic ice giant, Webb's image offers direct ...