Uranus is unique as it rotates on its side, at roughly a 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. The planet takes 84 years to orbit the Sun. An animated GIF showing Uranus' magnetic field. The ...
This belief appears to have been confirmed thanks to observations made by the James Webb space telescope. By looking at the brown dwarf, astronomers were able to detect thick clouds of sand-like ...
This pair of galaxies is currently in the process of colliding and merging into one, a process that will take around a ...
Rho Ophiuchi is a cloud complex filled with gas and stars of different sizes and ages. 19 Webb images of face-on spiral galaxies are combined in a mosaic. Some appear within squares, horizontal or ...
Since its deployment, the James Webb Space Telescope has been fine-tuned by experts to maintain its powerful optical ...
In an image snapped by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8, Mexico's most active volcano Popocatépetl can be seen ...
These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.
The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...