Washington: The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said that the first cosmic images from the James Webb Space Telescope would include unprecedented views of distant galaxies, bright nebulae and a faraway giant gas planet. Carina Nebula is famous […]
The James Webb Space Telescope is finally on the launchpad. The space observatory, safely tucked inside an Ariane 5 rocket, is expected to launch on December 25. The rollout took about two hours to complete, according to NASA. Arianespace’s Ariane […]
It’s a moment that has been decades in the making. The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s premier observatory of the next decade, is scheduled for December 18 from French Guiana. The telescope has endured years of delays, […]
Telescopes are time machines. One day, they could take us to a time before starlight. When astronomers peer out into the vast distances of space, they’re also looking back in time. That’s because faraway light takes a long time to […]