In June 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope made one of its first observations, capturing the rare sight of a Wolf-Rayet star in unprecedented detail. The star, WR 124, is located in the constellation Sagittarius and is 15,000 light-years away.
For two decades, scientists have been studying X7, an elongated object near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, in an effort to determine its origins. They have wondered if it was pulled off a larger structure nearby, if its shape was caused by stellar winds or if it was shaped…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is providing unprecedented resolution at infrared wavelengths to researchers who are getting their first look at nearby galaxies’ star formation, gas, and dust. As a result, the team has produced 21 research papers that give new insights into how the beginnings of star formation impact the evolution of galaxies.