The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a powerful tool for exploring space, launched in December 2021. It can see faraway objects using infrared light. One important part of the telescope is the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI),

A traveling exhibit will be on display at the Putnam Museum with a close-up view of the stars. NASA’s Hubble: New Views of the Universe opens 9. The exhibit was created in partnership with the Smithsonian Institute’s Traveling Exhibit team.

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming the popular hypothesis that invisible dark matter helped the earliest stars and galaxies clump together.