NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected signs of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere of a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star over a thousand light years away, the US space agency said on Wednesday. The observation is the most detailed of its kind to date, … Read more
There is also the promise of more such additions as NASA readies its $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope for planet-gazing in deep space. Astronomers have added the 5,000th exoplanet to the NASA Exoplanet Archive, the agency’s officials at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have said. NASA hit the milestone mark following the discovery … Read more
The delicate orbital burn ensured that Webb reached its right spot; otherwise, had it got too much thrust from the rocket, it would have turned around to fly back to earth, exposing the optics to the sun without a shield and destroying them. Thirty days after launch NASA’s seven-ton James Webb Space telescope, 20 years … Read more
A joint effort with the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, the Webb mission will “explore every phase of cosmic history…” NASA said. James Webb Space Telescope: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on Saturday completed a two-week-long deployment phase of its 21-foot, gold-coated primary mirror panel as it gets ready to study cosmic history. … Read more