“If we consider what the James Webb Space Telescope is doing, it’s optimized towards looking at the very distant universe … but just a tiny patch of the sky,” says astrophysicist Rachel Mandelbaum of Carnegie Mellon University. “In contrast, Roman is able to look at a large area of the sky at once.” That broad
Like a collage made of layered sheets of colored cellophane, a vibrant new image layers observations of a famous star-forming nebula from NASA space telescopes. The resulting cosmic “craft” reveals new details about the star formation region known as 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small neighbor galaxy
Last September, JWST took this image of a protostellar jet on the outskirts of the Milky Way. From tip to tip, the jet extends about twice the distance from the Sun to its nearest neighboring star system, α Centauri.Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Yu Cheng (NAOJ); Image processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) Of the black holes