In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a rare "Einstein ring," revealing two distant galaxies in an optical illusion ...

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's largest solar telescope, can see the sun in unprecedented detail. Here is ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's most powerful solar telescope, operated by ...

The telescope has been installed with the world's largest spectro-polarimeter, the Visible Tunable Filter (VTF).

"The picture features a rare cosmic phenomenon — an Einstein ring ... captures light, is over 21 feet across. That's over two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror ...

Take a tour of the amazing Ring Nebula image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/Institute for Earth and Space Exploration/JWST Ring Nebula Imaging Project American ...

while the MIRI observations show thermal light. On 8 March 2025, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope turned its watchful eye toward asteroid 2024 YR4, which we now know poses no ...

An infamous asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth anytime soon, but the James Webb Space Telescope recently ... which shows reflected light, and Mid-Infrared Instrument ...

The instrument, now in its fourth year of surveying the sky, can observe light from 5,000 ... expansion history.” Other space observatories, like the Euclid space telescope and the Nancy Grace ...