Ashley Zelinskie's VR artwork Twin Quasar was inspired by the iconic deep-space image from the James Webb Space Telescope that introduced a new audience to gravitational lensing.

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This colorful view of N79 centers on a star-forming molecular cloud complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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Soon after it came online in 2022, Webb observations revealed a population of tiny red objects dubbed little red dots (LRDs).

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The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

In an astronomical feat, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers observed a distant galaxy, uncovering ...