Now, the powerful space telescope has pushed it to the edge closer to home in our very own galaxy, the Milky Way. A team of astronomers has pointed the JWST at the outskirts of the Milky Way, observing a region scientists call the "Extreme Outer Galaxy."

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a collision between two galaxies that appears to have created a beaming smile in space.

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole "killing" its galaxy by starving it of the material needed to birth new stars.

A team of scientists has presented their research into Pablo's Galaxy in a new paper titled "A fast-rotator post-starburst galaxy quenched by supermassive black-hole feedback at z

One of the latest observations made from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a trio of galaxies that form a shape resembling a question mark. And that’s really how astronomers feel about the universe and all its mysteries they still have yet to uncover.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have confirmed that a supermassive black hole nearly 12 billion light-years away is actively starving its host galaxy, preventing it from forming new stars.